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Health Quality and Safety Commission

82HQSC may appoint mortality review committees

  1. HQSC may appoint 1 or more committees to perform any of the following functions that HQSC specifies by notice to the committee:

  2. to review and report to HQSC on specified classes of deaths of persons, or deaths of persons of specified classes, with a view to reducing the numbers of deaths of those classes or persons, and to continuous quality improvement through the promotion of ongoing quality assurance programmes:
    1. to advise on any other matters related to mortality that HQSC specifies in the notice.

      1. A committee appointed under subsection (1) (a mortality review committee) must develop strategic plans and methodologies that—

      2. are designed to reduce morbidity and mortality; and
        1. are relevant to the committee’s functions.

          1. HQSC—

          2. must, at least annually, provide the Minister with a report on the progress of mortality review committees; and
            1. must include each such report in HQSC’s next annual report.

              1. The provisions of Schedule 5 apply in relation to a mortality review committee.

              2. Every person who fails, without reasonable excuse, to comply with a requirement imposed under Schedule 5 by the chairperson of a mortality review committee commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $10,000.

              3. Every person who discloses information contrary to Schedule 5 commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $10,000.

              4. Any member of a registered occupational profession who commits an offence under subsection (5) or (6) is liable to any disciplinary proceedings of that profession in respect of the offence, whether or not they are fined under that subsection.