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Ambulance Service Act 1991
sec.36GRCA team’s report
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### sec.36G RCA team’s report
An RCA team must, as soon as practicable after conducting an RCA of a reportable event, prepare a report (the RCA report ) stating the following—
a description of the event;
a statement of the factors the RCA team considers contributed to the happening of the event;
any recommendations about changes or improvements in a policy, procedure or practice relating to the provision of ambulance services, to reduce the likelihood of, or prevent, the same type of event happening again during the provision of ambulance services.
Also, the RCA report may include a summary, or pictorial representation, of the chain of events identified by the RCA team as having led to the reportable event happening.
The RCA report must not contain the name or address of—
a person involved in providing the relevant ambulance service; or
the person who received the relevant ambulance service; or
a member of the RCA team.
In this section—
relevant ambulance service means the ambulance service during the provision of which the reportable event happened.
s 36G ins 2007 No. 28 s 50
amd 2014 No. 65 s 5
(sec.36G-ssec.1) An RCA team must, as soon as practicable after conducting an RCA of a reportable event, prepare a report (the RCA report ) stating the following— a description of the event; a statement of the factors the RCA team considers contributed to the happening of the event; any recommendations about changes or improvements in a policy, procedure or practice relating to the provision of ambulance services, to reduce the likelihood of, or prevent, the same type of event happening again during the provision of ambulance services.
(sec.36G-ssec.2) Also, the RCA report may include a summary, or pictorial representation, of the chain of events identified by the RCA team as having led to the reportable event happening.
(sec.36G-ssec.3) The RCA report must not contain the name or address of— a person involved in providing the relevant ambulance service; or the person who received the relevant ambulance service; or a member of the RCA team.
(sec.36G-ssec.4) In this section— relevant ambulance service means the ambulance service during the provision of which the reportable event happened.
- (a) a description of the event;
- (b) a statement of the factors the RCA team considers contributed to the happening of the event;
- (c) any recommendations about changes or improvements in a policy, procedure or practice relating to the provision of ambulance services, to reduce the likelihood of, or prevent, the same type of event happening again during the provision of ambulance services.
- (a) a person involved in providing the relevant ambulance service; or
- (b) the person who received the relevant ambulance service; or
- (c) a member of the RCA team.