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Quality and Safety
Incident management
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FAQ
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- Where
can I find the legislation about RCA reports?
- In the Health
Administration Act 1982
- What
information should the RCA report contain?
- A description of the reported incident,
a causation statement indicating the reasons
why the incident occured, based on the findings
from RCA investigation, and recommendations
by the RCA team of changes or improvements
relating to a procedure or practice arising
out of the incident.
- Where
can I find other acts and regulations?
- You can find them from the NSW Department
of Health website under Legal
and Legislative Services
- Is
the final RCA report covered by privilege?
- No. For more information, please refer to
the Incident
Management Policy PD2007_061
- Does
a copy of the incident report need tobe included
in the patients medical file?
- All actual clinical incidents must be documented in the patient’s health record. Care
must be taken to ensure only clinically relevant information is included in the health
record. Staff must document the IIMS ID number in the health record with the
information about the incident.
If the incident was identified via a complaint, as per PD2006_073, then the complaint
details are NOT to be recorded in the patient medical file.
- Do
I need to put a copy of the RIB in the patient/client
record?
- No. The RIB is a notification to the NSW
Department of Health and does not need to
be included in the patients medical record.
- When
do I need to submit the final RCA report to
the Department?
- The report must be submitted to the Department
within 70 calendar days of the incident being
notified in IIMS.
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