{"id":"C2010L00020","name":"Health Insurance Act 1973 - Declaration of Quality Assurance Activity under Section 124X (QAA No. 2/2003)","slug":"health-insurance-act-1973-declaration-of-quality-assurance-activity-under-section-124x-qaa-no-2-2003","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":28404,"registerId":"commonwealth-C2010L00020-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-01","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"SCHEDULE","sectionType":"part","heading":"SCHEDULE","content":"#   \nSCHEDULE\n\nQAA No. 2/2003\n\nDECLARED QUALITY ASSURANCE ACTIVITY TO WHICH PART VC OF THE HEALTH INSURANCE ACT 1973 APPLIES\n\n![](image.001.png)\n\nItem Description of Quality Assurance Activity\n\n\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\n\n1\\. Person engaging in activity: The Australian Cardiac Surgery Research Institute (ACSRI)\n\nTitle: Cardiac Surgery Database Project.\n\nDescription: The Activity involves collecting and standardising patients’ surgical and clinical data in Cardiac Surgery Units to:\n\n-   provide national as well as local level information about the quality of cardiac surgery;\n-   collate risk-adjusted data for research, risk assessment and outcome prediction;\n-   establish appropriate benchmarking standards for selected surgical procedures; and\n-   improve the quality of patient care through developing effective peer review mechanisms.\n\n2\\. Person engaging in activity: Murray Plains Division of General Practice.\n\nTitle: Small Hospital Clinical Risk Management Program.\n\nDescription: The Activity involves screening hospital medical records to identify adverse events and select cases for review.\n\n3. Person engaging in activity: Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.\n\nTitle: Practice Improvement Program for Rural Obstetricians and Anaesthetists.\n\nDescription: The Activity involves open discussions of the outcomes of obstetric care based on a structured process for reviewing perinatal and maternal mortality and morbidity.","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"model":"kimi-k2.5","source":"moonshot-batch","completionTokens":1895},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This declaration exercises an existing power under section 124X of the Health Insurance Act 1973 to specify which activities receive statutory protection. It does not alter the scope of Part VC itself; it merely applies the existing legislative framework to three specific quality assurance programs."},"complexity_factors":["Minimal length with only three discrete declaratory entries","Straightforward tabular structure without conditional logic or exceptions","Limited cross-referencing (only referring broadly to Part VC of the Health Insurance Act 1973)","No defined terms or technical legal drafting within the Schedule itself"],"plain_english_summary":"This instrument declares three medical quality‑improvement programs protected under Part VC of the Health Insurance Act 1973, giving legal confidentiality to their quality‑assurance activities so collected data and peer reviews generally can’t be used in court or disclosed externally. The programs affect cardiac surgery benchmarking, small‑hospital clinical risk review, and rural obstetrics/anaesthesia practice improvement—protecting frank clinician review of adverse events to improve patient care."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/health-insurance-act-1973-declaration-of-quality-assurance-activity-under-section-124x-qaa-no-2-2003","history":"/api/acts/health-insurance-act-1973-declaration-of-quality-assurance-activity-under-section-124x-qaa-no-2-2003/history","analysis":"/api/acts/health-insurance-act-1973-declaration-of-quality-assurance-activity-under-section-124x-qaa-no-2-2003/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/health-insurance-act-1973-declaration-of-quality-assurance-activity-under-section-124x-qaa-no-2-2003/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/health-insurance-act-1973-declaration-of-quality-assurance-activity-under-section-124x-qaa-no-2-2003/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/health-insurance-act-1973-declaration-of-quality-assurance-activity-under-section-124x-qaa-no-2-2003/documents"}}