176BNational Board to give notice to registered health practitioner’s employer and other entities [NSW]

176B National Board to give notice to registered health practitioner’s employer and other entities [NSW]

176B National Board to give notice to registered health practitioner’s employer and other entities [NSW]

(1) This section applies if—

(a) a National Board—

(i) decides to take health, conduct or performance action against a registered health practitioner; or

(ii) receives notice from an adjudication body that the adjudication body has decided to take health, conduct or performance action against a registered health practitioner; or

(iii) receives notice from a co-regulatory authority that an adjudication body in the co-regulatory jurisdiction has decided to take health, conduct or performance action against a registered health practitioner; and

(b) the National Board has been given practice information under section 132 or becomes aware of practice information it should have been given under that section.

(2) If the practice information given to the National Board, or of which the Board becomes aware, is information referred to in section 132(4), definition of practice information, paragraph (a) and includes the names of other registered health practitioners, the Board, as soon as practicable after an event specified in subsection (1)(a) occurs, may give written notice of the decision to—

(a) the named registered health practitioners with whom the practitioner currently shares premises and the cost of the premises; and

(b) the named registered health practitioners with whom the practitioner previously shared premises and the cost of the premises if the Board reasonably believes the practitioner’s health, conduct or performance while the practitioner shared the premises with the registered health practitioners posed—

(i) a risk of harm to a person or a class of persons; or

(ii) a risk to public health or safety.

(3) If the practice information given to the Board, or of which the Board becomes aware, is information referred to in section 132(4), definition of practice information, paragraph (b), the Board, as soon as practicable after an event specified in subsection (1)(a) occurs—

(a) if the registered health practitioner has a current practice arrangement with an entity named in the information—must give written notice of the decision to the entity; or