Singapore legislation
Regulation 22
Regulation 22
Appointment of supervisor of quality assurance activities
Subregulation 1
Every QAC licensee must appoint, for each QAC appointed by the QAC licensee, a suitably qualified and competent individual (called in this regulation the QAC supervisor), who may or may not be a member of the QAC, to oversee and supervise the quality assurance activities of the QAC.
Subregulation 2
In overseeing and supervising the quality assurance activities of the QAC, the QAC supervisor must —
maintain an ongoing quality assurance programme in accordance with the licence conditions applicable to the QAC licensee;
ensure the timely identification and reporting of such cases for peer review learning and mortality and morbidity review and such serious reportable events as may be specified in the licence conditions; and
in the case of a QAC for MMR cases or serious reportable events, ensure that the QAC institutes an effective system for a root cause analysis of every MMR case or serious reportable event (as the case may be), and recommends appropriate solutions in a timely manner to prevent a further recurrence.