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HOSPITAL AND HEALTH BOARDS ACT 2011 - SECT 40
Engagement strategies
40 Engagement strategies
(1) A Service must develop and publish the following strategies— (a) a
strategy (a
"clinician engagement strategy" ) to promote consultation with health
professionals working in the Service; and
(b) a strategy (a
"consumer and community engagement strategy" ) to promote consultation with
health consumers and members of the community about the provision of
health services by the Service; and
(c) a strategy (a
"health equity strategy" ) to achieve, and to specify the Service’s
activities to achieve, health equity for Aboriginal people and Torres Strait
Islander people in the provision of health services by the Service.
(2) The
Service must consult with the following persons in developing the
strategies— (a) for the clinician engagement strategy—health professionals
working in the Service;
(b) for the
consumer and community engagement strategy—health consumers and members of
the community;
(c) for the health equity strategy—the persons prescribed by
regulation.
(3) Each of the strategies must— (a) satisfy any requirements
prescribed by regulation for that strategy; and
(b) be published in a way
that allows the strategy to be accessed by members of the public, including,
for example, on the internet.
(4) The Service must give effect to the
strategies in performing its functions under this Act.
(5) In giving effect
to the health equity strategy, the Service must consult with the persons
prescribed, and in the way prescribed, by regulation.
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