Private Health Facility Data & Expanded Cancer Data Set Regulations

Have your say on the draft regulations relating to Private Health Facility Data & Expanded Cancer Data Sets.

What's being decided?

We are in the process of introducing two new data regulations to the Health Care Regulations (2008) to support statewide health service planning, population health planning and improve patient health outcomes.

• Private Health Facility Data Regulation (Health Care (Provision of Data and Statistics) Variation Regulations 2021)
  • This Regulation will require private health facilities (private hospitals and private day procedure centres) to provide identified patient activity data to the Department for Health and Wellbeing (DHW).
  • There are two sections to the new Regulation:
    • Regulation 21AA relates to private hospitals.
    • Regulation 21G relates to private day procedure centres.
• Expanded Cancer Data Set Regulation (Health Care (Reporting of Cancer) Variation Regulations 2021)
  • This Regulation will require public and private hospitals, health services and pathology laboratories to provide data on cancer treatment, prognosis (predictive factors for how the cancer will behave) and recurrence (when a cancer thought to have been cured returns) to the DHW.
  • There are two sections to the new Regulation:
    • Regulation 27 relates to public and private hospitals, health services.
    • Regulation 28 relates to pathology laboratories.

We want your feedback on these draft regulations.

Background

SA Health is committed to improving the health and wellbeing of all South Australians.

Understanding the patient journey across public and private health services will help us make meaningful improvements across South Australia’s health system.

Collecting and analysing consistent data from all health services enables transparency and accountability for patients, families and carers accessing health services in South Australia.

Get involved

To find out more, read the:

Draft Private Health Facility Regulation and accompanying fact sheet:

• Health Care (Provision of Data and Statistics) Variation Regulations 2021
• Private Health Facility Data Regulation Fact Sheet

Draft Expanded Cancer Data Set Regulation and accompanying fact sheet:

• Health Care (Reporting of Cancer) Variation Regulations 2021
• Expanded Cancer Data Set Regulation Fact Sheet

Have your say by:

• commenting on our guestbook
• voting in our 4 polls
• emailing your feedback to health.corporateaffairsspecialprojects@sa.gov.au
• posting your written feedback to:
  
  C/o Corporate Affairs & Special Projects
  SA Health
  PO Box 287
  Rundle Mall
  Adelaide SA 5000

What are the next steps?

As part of the consultation process the DHW is engaging directly with impacted health care providers to seek their feedback on the draft Regulations.

We will review and consider all feedback to finalise the draft Regulations. The new Regulations will come into effect on 1 July 2022.

While the Regulations are being drafted and finalised the existing data reporting requirements for all health care providers will remain in place.