New South Wales Consolidated Acts

HEALTH CARE COMPLAINTS ACT 1993 - SECT 22A

22A Associated complaints to be taken into account

(1) In assessing, and reviewing its assessment of, a complaint relating to a health practitioner or a health organisation, the Commission is to have regard to any of the following matters, to the extent the Commission reasonably considers the matter to be relevant to the complaint--

(a) any associated complaint,

(b) if the complaint relates to a health practitioner--

(i) any decision made in respect of the practitioner by an adjudication body within the meaning of the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (NSW) , and

(ii) any previous finding, determination, recommendation or decision made in respect of the practitioner by a committee, tribunal or panel under a repealed Act.

(2) In this section,
"repealed Act" means any of the following Acts--

(a) Chiropractors Act 2001 ,

(b) Dental Practice Act 2001 ,

(c) Dental Technicians Registration Act 1975 ,

(d) Medical Practice Act 1992 ,

(e) Nurses and Midwives Act 1991 ,

(f) Optometrists Act 2002 ,

(g) Osteopaths Act 2001 ,

(h) Pharmacy Practice Act 2006 ,

(i) Physiotherapists Act 2001 ,

(j) Podiatrists Act 2003 ,

(k) Psychologists Act 2001 .