Queensland Consolidated Acts

HOSPITAL AND HEALTH BOARDS ACT 2011 - SECT 40

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.