18. Provision of additional information at additional information meeting
Amendments (requiring commencement) by Sch. 2 to the Patient Safety (Notifiable Incidents and Open Disclosure) Act 2023 (No. 10), published 2 May 2023.
(1) A health services provider may, at any time after the holding of the open disclosure meeting, provide information that is additional to the information, specified in section 16(3), which was, in accordance with section 16(2)(a), provided to the patient or relevant person (or both of them) at the open disclosure meeting ("additional information") that, having regard to -
(a) subparagraphs (i) and (ii) of paragraph (a) of section 14(1), and
was not available to the health services provider at the time of the making of the open disclosure of the patient safety incident and which, after that open disclosure of that incident was made, has become available and may, having regard to that additional information, make an apology, and such additional information and apology (if any) shall be provided, or made -
(i) by the principal health practitioner who made the open disclosure of the patient safety incident in accordance with section 13,