New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PRIVATE HEALTH FACILITIES ACT 2007 - SECT 47

47 Serious adverse event review of incident

(1) A serious adverse event review team is to carry out a serious adverse event review of the incident in respect of which it was appointed.

(2) A serious adverse event review team must, on completion of the serious adverse event review of an incident, prepare a written report that sets out a description of the incident and details of the following findings identified by the team--

(a) how the incident occurred,

(b) any factors that caused or contributed to the incident.

(3) The report must also include the serious adverse event review team's recommendations (if any) about changes or improvements in relation to a procedure, practice or system (including clinical redesign) arising out of the incident unless the licensee determines that those recommendations are instead to be developed and included in a second report.

(4) If the licensee determines that the recommendations are to be developed and included in a second report, the licensee may appoint additional persons to the serious adverse event review team for the purpose of developing the recommendations and preparing the second report.

(5) The serious adverse event review team must provide any report prepared under this section to the licensee and provide a copy of the report to the chair of the medical advisory committee for the private health facility.

(6) The licensee must, within 30 days after being provided with a report under this section, forward a copy of the report to the Secretary.

: Maximum penalty--50 penalty units.

(7) Subject to section 49E, the contents of a report under this section may be disclosed to any person and used for any purpose.