South Australian Current Regulations South Australian Current Regulations19—Provision of health services data and statistics to Minister
(1) The holder of a
licence under Part 10 of the Act in respect of a private hospital must provide
to the Minister the data specified under subregulation (2) in respect of
each month of operation of the private hospital.
(2) For the purposes
of subregulation (1), the Minister may specify any of the following kinds
of data:
(a) data
relating to admitted patient care, which may include (without limitation) the
health status of admitted patients, health services provided to those patients
and health outcomes for those patients;
(b) data
relating to non-admitted patient emergency department care for presentations
to an emergency department or emergency health service, which may include
(without limitation) the health status of persons presenting to the service,
health services provided to those persons and health outcomes for those
persons;
(c) data
relating to the occurrence of sentinel events.
(3) Data required to
be provided under this regulation relating to a particular month must be
provided—
(a) in a
form and manner acceptable to the Minister; and
(b)
within the period specified by the Minister following the end of that month
(which may vary according to the data or other circumstances to which it
applies).
(4) Subject to this
regulation, a person must not in any circumstances (including proceedings
before any court, tribunal or board) divulge confidential information obtained
directly or indirectly as a result of a disclosure made under this regulation.
Maximum penalty: $10 000.
(5)
Subregulation (4) does not prevent a person from disclosing
confidential information in accordance with an authorisation given by the
Chief Executive.
(6) A person must not,
when appearing as a witness in any proceedings before a court, tribunal or
board, be asked, and, if asked, is not required to answer, any question
directed at obtaining confidential information obtained by that person
directly or indirectly as a result of a disclosure made under this regulation
and any such information volunteered by such a person is not admissible in any
proceedings.
(7) In this
regulation—
"confidential information" has the same meaning as in section 63 of the Act.