Australian Capital Territory
Health (ACT Audit of Periprocedural and Perioperative Mortality Sub-Committee – Public Hospitals) Approved Public Sector Quality Assurance Committee Declaration 2004 (No 1)
Notifiable instrument NI2004— 254
made under the Health Act 1993, s 8(1) Approval of public sector committees

Section 8 (1) The Minister may, in writing, declare that a stated committee is established as an approved public sector quality assurance committee for a health facility or for a stated purpose.

Section 8(2) A committee mentioned in subsection (1) may have all or any of the following functions decided by the Minister:
(a)	to conduct quality assurance activities among health service providers for the purpose of assessing and evaluating the health services provided by the Territory, to report, and make recommendations, to the chief executive in relation to those services and to monitor the implementation of those recommendations;
(b)	to conduct research or investigations into morbidity and mortality in the ACT and to report, and make recommendations, to the chief executive in relation to that research or those investigations;
(c)	to investigate, assess, review and evaluate the clinical privileges provided to health service providers and to report, and make recommendations, to the chief executive in relation to whether those clinical privileges should be preserved, varied or withdrawn.

I declare the ACT Audit of Periprocedural and Perioperative Mortality Sub-Committee – Public Hospitals, established by The Canberra Hospital as an approved private sector quality assurance committee for the purposes of section 8 (2).

Bill Wood MLA
A/g Minister for Health
26 July 2004