Ambulance Service Act 1991

placing the public at risk of substantial harm in the practitioner’s practice of the profession because the practitioner has an impairment; or

placing the public at risk of substantial harm by practising the profession in a way that constitutes a significant departure from accepted professional standards.

is registered under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law to practise a health profession, other than as a student; or

holds non-practising registration under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law in a health profession.

for the commissioning authority, means a person who provides administrative or secretarial services to the authority to help it exercise its powers under this part; or

for an RCA team, means a person—

who provides administrative or secretarial services to the RCA team; or

who advises the RCA team about—

conducting an RCA of a reportable event; or

preparing an RCA report for a reportable event.

generally, means any of the following events that happen while an ambulance service is being provided to a person—

the death of the person, or permanent injury suffered by the person, while giving birth;

the death of the person caused by the incorrect management of the person’s medication;

the death of the person, or neurological damage suffered by the person, caused by an intravascular gas embolism;

the death of the person, or permanent loss of function suffered by the person, unrelated to the natural course of the person’s medical condition for which he or she was receiving the ambulance service;

the death of the person, or permanent injury suffered by the person, contributed to by an unreasonable delay in the provision of the ambulance service or a failure to meet recognised standards for providing the ambulance service;

the wrong procedure being performed on the person or a procedure being performed on the wrong part of the person’s body; or

in relation to an RCA report, means the reportable event to which the report relates.