Australian Capital Territory
Health (Quality Assurance Committees) Declaration 2005
Notifiable Instrument NI2005—239
made under the
Health Act 1993, s 8 Approval of public sector committees
Health Act 1993 s19 Approval of private sector committees

1	Name of instrument
	This instrument is the Health (Quality Assurance Committees) Declaration 2005.

2	Commencement
	This instrument commences on the day after it is notified.

3	Declaration
	The committees named in Schedule A are established as approved public sector quality assurance committees for Community Health ACT.
	The committees named in Schedule B are established as approved public sector quality assurance committees for Mental Health ACT.
	The committees named in Schedule C are established as approved public sector quality assurance committees for The Canberra Hospital.
	The committees named in Schedule D are established as approved public sector quality assurance committees for Calvary Health Care ACT.
	The committees named in Schedule E are established as approved private sector quality assurance committees for Calvary Health Care ACT.

4	Functions of the Committees
	The committees named in Schedules A, B, C, and D have the following functions under section 8:
	(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; and

	(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.

The committees named in Schedule E also have the following functions under section 19:
	(a)	to assess and evaluate the health services provided by the relevant prescribed body, to report and make recommendations to the body about those services and to monitor the implementation of its recommendations; or

	(b)	to conduct research or investigations into morbidity and mortality in the relevant prescribed body and to report and make recommendations to the body in relation to that research or those investigations

Simon Corbell MLA
Minister for Health
28 June 2005

SCHEDULE A
Community Health Care ACT

Name of Committee	
Clinical Review Committee	

SCHEDULE B
Mental Health ACT

Name of Committee	
Mental Health ACT Clinical Review Committee	

SCHEDULE C
The Canberra Hospital

Name of Committee	
Clinical Review Committee	

SCHEDULE D
Calvary Health Care ACT

Name of Committee	
ACT Periprocedural and Perioperative Mortality Sub Committee	
Clinical Review Committee	
Maternal and Perinatal Clinical Review	
Orthopaedic Clinical Audit Committee	

SCHEDULE E
Calvary Health Care ACT

Name of Committee	
Clinical Review Committee	
Maternal and Perinatal Clinical Review	
Orthopaedic Clinical Audit Committee