45Outcome of assessment of incidents

45 Outcome of assessment of incidents

45 Outcome of assessment of incidents

(1) A licensee may only disclose an advice of an assessor or any information obtained from the advice as follows—

(a) to provide the advice to the Secretary,

(b) to advise a serious adverse event review team appointed to carry out a serious adverse event review of the incident to which the advice relates,

(c) to provide relevant information to a patient involved in the incident, a family member or carer of the patient or a person nominated by any such patient, family member or carer,

(d) to a law enforcement agency or regulatory body,

(e) in any other manner as may be prescribed by the regulations.

(2) A licensee must take reasonable steps to not disclose information that identifies a person (other than the patient involved in the incident) when it provides information under subsection (1) (c).

s 45: Am 2010 No 52, Sch 2.2 [9]. Subst 2018 No 73, Sch 6[1].