Healthcare Services (Contingency Care Service) Regulations 2023
Table of Contents
Enacting Formula
Part 1 PRELIMINARY
1 Citation and commencement
2 Definitions
3 Application of Regulations
Part 2 LICENSING MATTERS
4 Specified service
5 Prohibited service delivery modes
Part 3 REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO PERSONNEL
6 Qualifications, skills and competencies of Clinical Governance Officer
7 No employment or engagement of unauthorised persons to practise medicine
Part 4 APPROVED PERMANENT PREMISES, EQUIPMENT, ETC.
8 Approved permanent premises, equipment, etc.
9 Backup utilities
10 Notification of addition or removal of beds
Part 5 REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO PATIENT CARE
Division 1 — General
11 Licensees to provide contingency care service only to individuals referred by certain persons
12 General requirements relating to patient care
13 Staffing requirements
14 Informed care
15 Transport of patients
Division 2 — Provision of mandatory services
16 Requirement to provide certain aspects of contingency care service
17 Nursing service
18 Nutrition service
19 Pharmaceutical service
Division 3 — Provision of other aspects of contingency care service
20 Anaesthesia service
21 Dietetic service
22 Rehabilitative service
23 Conduct of ultrasound imaging
24 Testing of specimen
25 Conduct of simple in vitro diagnostic test
26 Essential life‑saving measures must be available
Part 6 INFECTION CONTROL, INCIDENT MANAGEMENT AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS
27 Infection control obligation
28 Emergency management system
Part 7 MISCELLANEOUS
29 Keeping of other records
30 Offences