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Version date: 22 September 2018 - onwards
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16. Open disclosure meeting

(1) A health services provider shall, subject to section 15, make arrangements -

(a) to meet with a patient or a relevant person (or both of them), or

(b) where it is not practicable for a patient or a relevant person (or both of them) to attend at a meeting with the provider, for that patient or person (or both of them) to be contacted by telephone (or other similar method of communication),

for the purpose of making an open disclosure of a patient safety incident in respect of which the patient, or patient to whom the relevant person is connected, is the subject (in this Part referred to as an "open disclosure meeting").

(2) When making an open disclosure of a patient safety incident at an open disclosure meeting, a health services provider -