Health Insurance (Quality Assurance Activity) Declaration 2020 (No. 1) (Cth)

Health Insurance (Quality Assurance Activity) Declaration 2020 (No. 1)

I, BRENDAN MURPHY, delegate of the Minister for Health, make this declaration under section 124X of the Health Insurance Act 1973.

Dated: 8 May 2020

Prof. Brendan Murphy Chief Medical Officer Department of Health

Contents

PART 1 PRELIMINARY 3

1 Name 3 2. Commencement 3 3. Authority 3 4. Repeal 3 5. Schedule 3

Schedule 4

Part 1 Preliminary

1. Name

This Declaration is the Health Insurance (Quality Assurance Activity) Declaration 2020 (No. 1).

2. Commencement

This Declaration commences on the day after it is registered on the Federal Register of Legislation.

3. Authority

This Declaration is made under subsection 124X(1) of the Health Insurance Act 1973.

4. Cessation

This Declaration will cease to be in force at the end of 5 years after the date on which it is signed.

5. Schedule

The quality assurance activity described in the Schedule to this Declaration is, to the extent that the quality assurance activity relates to health services provided in Australia, declared to be a quality assurance activity to which Part VC of the Health Insurance Act 1973 applies.

Schedule Declaration of quality assurance activity

1 Name of activity:

The Australian and New Zealand Society of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgeons' Cardiac Surgery Monitoring Program.

2 Description of activity:

The Australian and New Zealand Society of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgeons' (ANZSCTS) Cardiac Surgery Monitoring Program (the Program) collates data in an established database and compares the results of adult cardiac surgical procedures and outcomes against an agreed set of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). The analysis of these results takes into account a patient's risk of complication and the surgical procedures, and methods used to achieve the most successful patient outcomes.