CB2 Audit

(2) For the avoidance of doubt, a practitioner who is a maternity provider or who works for a maternity provider must comply with all statutory, regulatory, legal, and professional requirements that apply to the primary maternity services provided by them, such as the requirement to maintain timely, detailed and accurate clinical records regarding all contacts with a woman and her baby/babies.

(3) The requirements referred to in subclauses (1) and (2) include, without limitation, the following: (a) the requirements of the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003; (b) the regulatory requirements of the applicable responsible authority, including the Code of Conduct; (c) the standards of the applicable professional college; (d) guidelines or standards relating to maternity or care of the newborn, developed by the Ministry of Health in consultation with maternity and newborn providers, endorsed by the providers’ professional body, and readily available; (e) the requirements of the Referral Guidelines (including, safe and timely referral and transfer practices); (f) the requirements of the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights; (g) the requirements of the Privacy Act 2020 and the Health Information Privacy Code 2020; (h) the requirements of the Health (Retention of Health Information) Regulations 1996; and (i) the requirements of the Children’s Act 2014 (formerly the Vulnerable Children Act 2014).

Defined in this notice: maternity provider, practitioner, primary maternity services, records, Referral Guidelines

CB2 Audit

(1) For the purposes of this clause, audit means an audit, investigation or review of: (a) the performance and quality of primary maternity services in accordance with this notice or the previous notice; and (b) any other matter concerning compliance with any of the obligations of the maternity provider under this notice or the previous notice.

(2) A maternity provider must provide the Ministry of Health and its authorised agents (the auditors) on 24 hours’ notice (or immediately if the auditor reasonably suspects fraudulent claiming has occurred) with: (a) all records requested by the auditors related to the primary maternity services for which the maternity provider has claimed for payment under the notice (provision of records includes providing direct and immediate access to any