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128TSerious adverse patient safety event review report
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128T Serious adverse patient safety event review report
(1) A SAPSE review panel must prepare and produce a report for the health service entities which appointed it as soon as practicable after completing an investigation into a serious adverse patient safety event.
(2) A report under subsection (1) must contain one or more of the following elements as considered appropriate by the SAPSE review panel—
(a) a description of the serious adverse patient safety event;
(b) analysis identifying why the event happened and any factors that contributed to the event;
(c) any recommendations about changes or improvements in a policy, procedure or practice relating to the provision of a health service that are intended to reduce the likelihood of, or prevent, the same type of event happening again;
(d) any prescribed matter or requirement.
(3) A report under subsection (1) must not contain—
(a) the name or address of the following—
(i) a person involved in providing the relevant health service;
(ii) a person who received the relevant health service;
(iii) a member of the SAPSE review panel;
(b) any other prescribed information.
S. 128U inserted by No. 4/2022 s. 5.