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HEALTH SERVICES ACT 1988 - SECT 125

Principles that apply to quality and safety reviews

The following principles apply to quality and safety reviews

        (a)     the reporting and acknowledgement of errors that occur in the course of providing a health service is to be encouraged by ensuring that the review process focuses on systemic issues rather than individual fault;

        (b)     health service entities should be accountable to patients for the services they provide;

        (c)     improvements that may be made to the organisational or physical structures , functions, workplace culture and outcomes of the provision of the health service should be the focus of the review;

        (d)     the review should be conducted as soon as practicable and the Chief Quality and Safety Officer should specify the likely duration of the review when the review is commenced;

        (e)     the review should encourage good communication and sharing of information between people involved in providing the health service.

New s. 126 inserted by No. 4/2022 s. 5.



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