Queensland Numbered Acts

HEALTH AND HOSPITALS NETWORK ACT 2011 No. 32 - SECT 102

(1) This section applies if, while conducting an RCA of a reportable event, the RCA team conducting the RCA reasonably believes—

(a) the event involves a blameworthy act; or

(b) the capacity of a person who was directly involved in providing the relevant health service to safely and effectively provide the service was impaired by alcohol consumed, or a drug taken, by the person.

(2) The RCA team must—

(a) stop conducting the RCA; and

(b) give written notice to the commissioning authority that appointed the RCA team members that the RCA team has stopped conducting the RCA.

(3) For subsection (2)(b), the notice—

(a) must be in the approved form; and

(b) must not contain any information about why the RCA team stopped conducting the RCA.