Private Healthcare Facilities and Services Act 1998 · Updated to 1 Dec 2015 · Part XII · Mortality Assessment
72. Mortality assessment committee at private healthcare facility or service level
Official textFrom Laws of Malaysia Online, unchanged
Notwithstanding section 65, any private healthcare facility or service may establish at its level any mortality assessment committee to carry out similar functions as in section 66.
private healthcare facility
“private healthcare facility” means any premises, other than a Government healthcare facility, used or intended to be used for the provision of healthcare services or health-related services, such as a private hospital, hospice, ambulatory care centre, nursing home, maternity home, psychiatric hospital, psychiatric nursing home, community mental health centre, haemodialysis centre, medical clinic, dental clinic and such other healthcare or health-related premises as the Minister may from time to time, by notification in the Gazette, specify;
The person in charge of a private healthcare facility or service shall appoint in respect of each mortality assessment committee a chairman who shall have the powers in section 68.
person in charge
“person in charge” means a person possessing such qualification, training and experience as may be prescribed and who shall be responsible for the management and control of the private healthcare facility or service to which a licence or registration relates;
Subject to subsection (4), a mortality assessment committee under this section shall, in accordance with such directions as the person in charge may, from time to time, give, publish to persons in the premises concerned with anesthesia, anesthetic procedures, medical technology, medical procedures, surgery or surgical procedures, and to such other persons and classes of person as the person in charge specifies, any conclusions and recommendations it reaches in the performance of its functions.
Committee
“Committee” means a National Mortality Assessment Committee. Establishment of National Mortality Assessment Committee
No publication made under subsection (3) shall contain the name of, or any information that could lead to the identification of, any person whose death has been considered by the committee or any medical practitioner or dental practitioner or any other person who has in any way been involved with the care or treatment of that person.
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Notwithstanding subsections (3) and (4) the Chairman shall supply the medical practitioner or dental practitioner whose patient’s death was notified as an assessable death with the conclusion and recommendations of the committee.
supply
“supply” means supply by way of sale, exchange or gift and includes receiving, keeping or storing for the purpose of supply. Private Healthcare Facilities and Services 49 Prohibition on supply of natural human blood and blood product
Sections 70 and 71 shall apply mutatis mutandis to assessments of assessable deaths carried out by a mortality assessment committee at a private healthcare facility or service.
Terms defined in this Act
assessable death
Defined · s 64“assessable death” means a death that, in the opinion of any medical practitioner or dental practitioner, may be related to anesthesia or any anesthetic procedure, or medical technology or any medical procedure, or surgery or any surgical procedure;
Committee
Defined · s 64“Committee” means a National Mortality Assessment Committee. Establishment of National Mortality Assessment Committee
person in charge
Defined · s 2“person in charge” means a person possessing such qualification, training and experience as may be prescribed and who shall be responsible for the management and control of the private healthcare facility or service to which a licence or registration relates;
premises
Defined · s 2“premises” means any place, building or vehicle, whether permanent or temporary;
private healthcare facility
Defined · s 2“private healthcare facility” means any premises, other than a Government healthcare facility, used or intended to be used for the provision of healthcare services or health-related services, such as a private hospital, hospice, ambulatory care centre, nursing home, maternity home, psychiatric hospital, psychiatric nursing home, community mental health centre, haemodialysis centre, medical clinic, dental clinic and such other healthcare or health-related premises as the Minister may from time to time, by notification in the Gazette, specify;
supply
Defined · s 54“supply” means supply by way of sale, exchange or gift and includes receiving, keeping or storing for the purpose of supply. Private Healthcare Facilities and Services 49 Prohibition on supply of natural human blood and blood product
Part XIII
Quality of Healthcare Facilities and Services
Part XIV
Board of Management and Advisory Committee
Part XV
Managed Care Organization
Part XVI
Enforcement
Part XVII
Power of Minister
Part XVIII
Miscellaneous
Part XIX