Private Healthcare Facilities and Services Act 1998 · s 68

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68.
Medical and dental practitioners to provide information
(1)  For the purposes of the functions of a Committee, the
Chairman may require any medical practitioner or dental practitioner or any other relevant person to supply all or any specified information in his possession relating to an assessable death, and to the anesthesia or anesthetic procedure or medical technology or medical procedure or surgery or surgical procedure relating to any assessable death, including clinical or medical records, and other material documents in his possession or under his control, notwithstanding subsection 112(4)
or any rule of law or custom or practice to the contrary.
(2)  Every medical practitioner and dental practitioner and any other person who has knowledge of an assessable death shall answer fully to the best of his knowledge and ability every relevant question asked of him by a Chairman of a Committee.
(3)  The Chairman of a Committee shall give to the respective
Committee all the information he receives under section 67 and this section in relation to an assessable death, other than—
(a) the name of the deceased person;
(b) the names of the medical practitioner or dental practitioner or any other person who carried out the anesthetic, medical or surgical procedure or who used any medical technology concerned; and

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(c) the name of the private healthcare facility or place where the death occurred.

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s 68Medical and dental practitioners to provide information

(1)

For the purposes of the functions of a Committee, the

Chairman may require any medical practitioner or dental practitioner or any other relevant person to supply all or any specified information in his possession relating to an assessable death, and to the anesthesia or anesthetic procedure or medical technology or medical procedure or surgery or surgical procedure relating to any assessable death, including clinical or medical records, and other material documents in his possession or under his control, notwithstanding subsection 112(4)

or any rule of law or custom or practice to the contrary.

(2)

Every medical practitioner and dental practitioner and any other person who has knowledge of an assessable death shall answer fully to the best of his knowledge and ability every relevant question asked of him by a Chairman of a Committee.

(3)

The Chairman of a Committee shall give to the respective

Committee all the information he receives under section 67 and this section in relation to an assessable death, other than—

(a)

the name of the deceased person;

(b)

the names of the medical practitioner or dental practitioner or any other person who carried out the anesthetic, medical or surgical procedure or who used any medical technology concerned; and

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(c)

the name of the private healthcare facility or place where the death occurred.