Singapore legislation
Section 45
Section 45
Performance assessment
(1)
If a registered medical practitioner agrees to undergo a performance assessment under section 44(3)(a), the quality of professional services provided by him shall be assessed by a Performance Assessment Panel appointed by the Complaints Committee and comprising one or more suitably qualified persons as the Complaints Committee may determine.
(2)
The Performance Assessment Panel will carry out the performance assessment in accordance with —
the provisions of this Division;
the practice and procedure as may be determined by the Medical Council; and
such instructions as may be issued by the Complaints Committee.
(3)
The registered medical practitioner under assessment shall, if required by the Performance Assessment Panel —
produce to the Panel or afford the Panel access to any record or document specified by the Panel or any record or other document which is of a class or description so specified and which is in his possession or under his control being in either case a record or other document which the Panel reasonably believes is or may be relevant to the performance assessment, within such time and at such place as the Panel may reasonably require;
give to the Panel such explanation or further particulars in respect of anything produced in compliance with a requirement under paragraph (a) as the Panel shall specify; and
give to the Panel all assistance in connection with the performance assessment which he is reasonably able to give.
(4)
Where any information or matter relevant to a performance assessment is recorded otherwise than in a legible form, the power of a Performance Assessment Panel to require the production of any record or other document conferred under subsection (3) shall include the power to require the production of a reproduction of any such information or matter or of the relevant part of it in a legible form.
(5)
A Performance Assessment Panel may inspect, examine or make copies of or take any abstract of or extract from any record or document produced under subsection (3) or (4).
(6)
The Performance Assessment Panel shall give a report of the assessment to the Complaints Committee and, with the approval of the Complaints Committee, the registered medical practitioner.
(7)
The Complaints Committee, or the investigator with the approval of the Complaints Committee, may discuss the report with the registered medical practitioner under assessment and, in the case of an adverse finding in the report, the possible ways of dealing with that finding.