Victorian Numbered Regulations

SAFE PATIENT CARE (NURSE TO PATIENT AND MIDWIFE TO PATIENT RATIOS) AMENDMENT REGULATIONS 2019 (SR NO 15 OF 2019) - REG 5

For regulation 1 of the Principal Regulations substitute —

        "     1     Objective

The objective of these Regulations is to make further provision for safe patient care in hospitals by—

        (a)     specifying criteria in accordance with which the number of nurses or midwives, as the case requires, with whom specified wards are staffed—

              (i)     may be reduced or increased, in the case of an operating theatre; or

              (ii)     may be increased above the minimum required, in the case of a special care nursery or neonatal intensive care unit; and

        (b)     setting out procedures in accordance with which—

              (i)     an agreement to vary a ratio or the application of a rounding method under section 12 of the Safe Patient Care (Nurse to Patient and Midwife to Patient Ratios) Act 2015 may be made; and

              (ii)     a local dispute must be resolved; and

        (c)     prescribing other matters to give effect to the Safe Patient Care (Nurse to Patient and Midwife to Patient Ratios) Act 2015 .".