Health Transparency Regulation 2020

1Short title

This regulation may be cited as the Health Transparency Regulation 2020.

2Commencement

This regulation commences on 1 March 2020.

3Patient outcome information—Act, s 9

For section 9(1)(b)(iii) of the Act, for each private health facility, the number of cases of Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia at the facility in a particular period is prescribed.

4Residential care information—Act, s 10

(1)For section 10(1)(a) of the Act, the average daily resident care hours at each State aged care facility or private residential aged care facility for a particular period is prescribed.

(2)The average daily resident care hours at a State aged care facility or private residential aged care facility for a particular period is worked out by—

(a)for each day in the period, dividing the total number of hours of residential care that nurses and support workers provide at the facility on the day by the number of residents at the facility on the day; and

(b)dividing the sum of the number of hours worked out under paragraph (a) for all the days in the period by the number of days in the period.

(3)For this section, a nurse or support worker is taken to provide residential care at a State aged care facility or private residential aged care facility if the nurse or support worker is directly involved in providing residential care at the facility.

(4)In this section—

enrolled nurse means a person registered under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law—

(a)to practise in the nursing profession, other than as a student; and

(b)in the enrolled nurses division of that profession.

nurse means a registered nurse or an enrolled nurse.

registered nurse means a person registered under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law—

(a)to practise in the nursing profession, other than as a student; and

(b)in the registered nurses division of that profession.

support worker means a person, other than a nurse, who provides residential care, under the supervision of a registered nurse, at a State aged care facility or private residential aged care facility.

Examples—

•a person employed in the role known as an assistant in nursing

•a person employed in the role known as a personal care assistant

•a person employed in the role known as an undergraduate student in nursing