Pursuant to section 32 of the Health and Disability Services (Safety) Act 2001 ("the Act"), the Director-General of Health designates Enhancing Quality Services ("the auditing agency") to audit the provision or likely future provision of the following kinds of health care services:
Hospital Care (as defined in section 4 (1) of the Act) excluding:
? Children's health services
? Surgical services
? Medical services
? Maternity services
? Geriatric services
Residential Disability Care (as defined in section 4 (1) of the Act)
This designation is subject to the following conditions:
1. The auditing agency must ensure that where it
audits the provision of health care services for people with physical or sensory disabilities, or intellectual disabilities, or psychiatric disabilities or mental illnesses, the auditing agency observes the following:
? for audits involving services for people with physical or sensory disabilities, a person with a pronounced physical or sensory disability, respectively, must fully participate in all aspects
of the audit; and
? for audits involving services for people with intellectual disabilities, a person with an intellectual disability (accompanied by a support person where necessary), or a close family or whanau member of a person with an intellectual disability must participate in all aspects of the audit; and
? for people with psychiatric disabilities or
mental illnesses, a past or present consumer
of mental health services must fully participate
in all aspects of the audit.
2. The auditing agency must inform the Ministry
of Health immediately by way of written notice
when they are accredited with JAS-ANZ and if
there is any change to their accreditation status with JAS-ANZ.
Under section 38 of the Act, this designation will expire three years after the date of this notice in the New Zealand Gazette.
Dated at Wellington this 17th day of September 2002.
DR G. DURHAM, Acting Director-General of Health.