Section 72

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.

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.

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.

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.

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