(1) A health profession board may use information it receives about a registered health professional's continuing competence or professional development to take action to protect public safety or in the public interest.
(2) The action the health profession board may take includes the following:
(a) reporting annually to the Minister, using non-identifying information, on the general performance or achievement of a regulated health profession as a whole or within specialist areas;
(b) providing information or advice to registered health professionals about their performance, including comparisons to best practice;
(c) providing information to someone else with the consent of the registered health professional;
(d) using information to support the board's advice or decision on what to do about a report or matter referred to the board by the electoral commissioner in relation to a health professional.
(3) Also, if information received under this part
in relation to a health professional indicates a potential risk to public
safety, the health profession board may treat the matter as a report about the
health professional.
Part 4.1 Required standard of practice generally