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Version date: 22 September 2018 - onwards
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12. Voluntary open disclosure of patient safety incident

Where a patient safety incident occurs in the course of the provision by a health services provider of a health service to a patient, the health services provider may make, in accordance with this Part, an open disclosure of the patient safety incident to -

(a) the patient concerned,

(b) a relevant person where -

(i) in the opinion of the health services provider, having had regard to the age, capacity or health of the patient who is the subject of the patient safety incident, it is appropriate that the open disclosure of that incident is made to a relevant person,

(ii) the patient has died, or

(iii) the patient has requested the health services provider to make the open disclosure of the patient safety incident to the relevant person and not to the patient,

or

(c) both the patient and a relevant person where -