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Patient Safety (Notifiable Incidents and Open Disclosure) Act 2023
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PART 5

Open disclosure of Part 5 reviews

Part 5 review

35. (1) A patient may request a review (in this Act referred to as a “request for a Part 5 review”) of the results of a screening which has been carried out by a cancer screening service in relation to the patient.

(2) A request for a Part 5 review shall be made in writing to the health services provider who provided the cancer screening to the patient.

(3) Where a request for a Part 5 review has been received in accordance with subsection (2), the health services provider which received the request shall carry out the review, which review shall be carried out in such form and manner and subject to such requirements and conditions as may be reasonably specified by the provider for the purposes of carrying out Part 5 reviews under this Part.