{"id":"F2009L02413","name":"Health Insurance Act 1973 - Declaration of Quality Assurance Activity under section 124X (QAA No. 1/2009)","slug":"health-insurance-act-1973-declaration-of-quality-assurance-activity-under-section-124x-qaa-no-1-2009","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":79333,"registerId":"commonwealth-F2009L02413-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-02","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"SCHEDULE","sectionType":"part","heading":"SCHEDULE","content":"# SCHEDULE\n\nQAA No. 1/2009\n\nRE-DECLARED QUALITY ASSURANCE ACTIVITIES TO WHICH\n\nPART VC OF THE HEALTH INSURANCE ACT 1973 APPLIES\n\n![](image.001.png)\n\nItem Description of Quality Assurance Activity\n\n\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\n\n1. Organisation engaging in activity: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RANZCOG).\n\nTitle: Perinatal mortality and morbidity: Learning from adverse events to improve care\n\nDescription: This activity seeks to improve the audit, investigation and peer review skills of specialists who have been involved in perinatal deaths or severe adverse events. By learning from these adverse events, clinicians can improve clinical and organisational practice.\n\n2. Organisation engaging in activity: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RANZCOG).\n\nTitle: Nuchal Translucency – Ultrasound, Education and Monitoring Program\n\nDescription: This activity seeks to maintain an ultrasound practitioners ability to accurately measure the nuchal translucency in the first trimester ultrasound scans through a process of continual audit by comparing current practice with current standards.","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"model":"kimi-k2.5","source":"moonshot-batch","completionTokens":1685},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This instrument is explicitly labelled as a 're-declaration' of existing quality assurance activities, maintaining the same scope of legal protection for the specified medical audit programs without expansion or alteration."},"complexity_factors":["Instrument contains only two declared activities with no operative provisions","No interpretation section or defined terms","No conditional logic, exceptions, or procedural requirements","Straightforward descriptive text in simple tabular format"],"plain_english_summary":"This declaration confers legal protection under Part VC of the Health Insurance Act to two RANZCOG quality‑assurance programs, shielding information shared during approved reviews from use in most legal proceedings. By protecting candid audit discussions, it encourages obstetricians, gynaecologists and ultrasound practitioners to participate in perinatal mortality and nuchal translucency audits, affecting both clinicians and patients whose cases are reviewed."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/health-insurance-act-1973-declaration-of-quality-assurance-activity-under-section-124x-qaa-no-1-2009","history":"/api/acts/health-insurance-act-1973-declaration-of-quality-assurance-activity-under-section-124x-qaa-no-1-2009/history","analysis":"/api/acts/health-insurance-act-1973-declaration-of-quality-assurance-activity-under-section-124x-qaa-no-1-2009/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/health-insurance-act-1973-declaration-of-quality-assurance-activity-under-section-124x-qaa-no-1-2009/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/health-insurance-act-1973-declaration-of-quality-assurance-activity-under-section-124x-qaa-no-1-2009/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/health-insurance-act-1973-declaration-of-quality-assurance-activity-under-section-124x-qaa-no-1-2009/documents"}}