Queensland Consolidated Acts

HOSPITAL AND HEALTH BOARDS ACT 2011 - SECT 23

23 Membership of boards

(1) A board consists of 5 or more members appointed by the Governor in Council, by gazette notice, on the recommendation of the Minister.

(2) The Minister is to recommend persons the Minister considers have the skills, knowledge and experience required for a Service to perform its functions effectively and efficiently, including—

(a) persons with expertise in health management, business management, financial management and human resource management; and

(b) persons with clinical expertise; and

(c) persons with legal expertise; and

(d) persons with skills, knowledge and experience in primary healthcare; and

(e) persons with knowledge of health consumer and community issues relevant to the operations of the Service; and

(f) persons with skills, knowledge and experience in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and community issues relevant to the operation of the Service; and

(g) where relevant, persons from universities, clinical schools or research centres with expertise relevant to the operations of the Service; and

(h) persons with other areas of expertise the Minister considers relevant to a Service performing its functions.

(3) One or more of the members of a board must be clinicians.

(4) One or more of the members of a board must be Aboriginal persons or Torres Strait Islander persons.

(5) In this section—

"clinician" means a person who—

(a) is a health professional registered under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law , other than as a student; and

(b) is currently directly or indirectly providing care or treatment to persons; and

(c) is in a profession that provides care or treatment to persons in public sector health services.