Australian Capital Territory
Health (Quality Assurance Committees for The Canberra Hospital) Declaration 2005 
Notifiable Instrument NI2005-213
made under the
Health Act 1993, s 8 Approval of public sector committees

1	Name of instrument
	This instrument is the Health (Quality Assurance Committees for The Canberra Hospital) 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 The Canberra Hospital.

4	Functions of the Committees
	The committees named in Schedule A have the following functions:
	(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.

John Hargreaves MLA
A/g Minister for Health
8 June 2005

SCHEDULE A

Name of Committee	
Aeromedical Retrieval Unit Quality Assurance Committee	
Anaesthetic and Pain Management Quality Improvement Committee	
Clinical Ethics Committee	
Emergency Medicine Quality Assurance Committee	
Geriatric Medicine Review Committee	
Immunology, Rheumatology, and Dermatology Death Review Committee	
Intensive Care Unit and Department of Emergency Medicine Quality Assurance Committee	
Intensive Care Unit Morbidity and Mortality Committee	
Maternal and Perinatal Morbidity and Mortality Committee	
Medical Oncology Morbidity and Mortality Committee	
Neurology Review Committee	
Orthopaedics Quality Assurance Committee	
Neurosurgery Unit Morbidity and Mortality Committee	
Thoracic Medicine Quality Assurance Committee	
Trauma Quality Assurance Committee	
Vascular and Thoracic Surgery Committee