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HOSPITAL AND HEALTH BOARDS ACT 2011 - SECT 47
Health service directives
(1) The chief executive may develop and issue health service directives to
Services for the following— (a) promoting service coordination and
integration in the delivery of health services— (i) between Services; and
(ii) between Services, the department and other service providers;
(b)
optimising the effective and efficient use of available resources in the
delivery of health services;
(c) setting standards and policies for the safe
and high quality delivery of health services;
(d) ensuring consistent
approaches to the delivery of health services, employment matters (other than
conditions of employment for health service employees) and the delivery of
support services;
(e) supporting the application of public sector policies,
State and Commonwealth Acts, and agreements entered into by the State.
(2)
Without limiting subsection (1) , health service directives may be about the
following— (a) standards and policies for the healthcare rights of users of
public sector health services;
(b) standards and policies for improving the
quality of health services;
(c) the use by Services of support services
provided by the department, other departments or other Services;
(d) the
purchasing of goods and services under contracts and agreements entered into
by the department, other departments or other Services;
(e) the provision of
information to the chief executive and other entities;
(f) responding to
public health emergencies;
(g) the setting of fees and charges, including for
the provision of services to private patients, for residential care, and for
the supply of pharmaceuticals;
(h) other matters prescribed under a
regulation.
(3) Health service directives may apply to all Services, some
Services, or a stated type of public sector health service facility or public
sector health service.
(4) In this section—
"delivery" , of health services, includes— (a) matters that support the
delivery of health services, including— (i) the establishment and operation
of clinical networks; and
(ii) the provision of training to health
professionals or students in public sector health service facilities; and
(iii) the engagement of independent contractor visiting medical officers or
other contracted health professionals; and
(iv) private practice arrangements
for health professionals; and
(v) the management of information, including
the way in which information is captured, collated, shared and reported; and
(vi) research, innovation and the application of intellectual property; and
(b) undertaking capital works for proposed public sector health service
facilities; and
(c) the provision of health services to public patients in
private health facilities.
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