Queensland Consolidated Regulations

HOSPITAL AND HEALTH BOARDS REGULATION 2023

- Made under the Hospital and Health Boards Act 2011
- As at 4 September 2024
- Reg 100 of 2023

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1 - PRELIMINARY

   1.      Short title
   2.      Commencement
   3.      Definitions

   PART 2 - HOSPITAL AND HEALTH SERVICES

   4.      Continuation of Hospital and Health Services—Act, s 17
   5.      Power to grant or take lease without Minister’s and Treasurer’s approval—Act, s 20A

   PART 3 - EMPLOYMENT MATTERS

   6.      Definitions for part
   7.      Movement of health service employees, other than health service chief executives, between health system employers
   8.      Movement of health service chief executives between health system employers
   9.      Movement of health service employees employed on a contract
   10.     Movement between classification levels
   11.     Effect of movement of health service employees other than health service chief executives
   12.     Effect of movement of health service chief executives
   13.     Continuation of entitlements of health service employees
   14.     Senior health service employees—Act, s 74A
   15.     Disclosure of personal information of health service employees and departmental public service employees in particular circumstances

   PART 4 - ENGAGEMENT STRATEGIES AND PROTOCOLS

   16.     Definitions for part
   17.     Prescribed persons—developing health equity strategies
   18.     Prescribed requirements for clinician engagement strategies
   19.     Prescribed requirements for consumer and community engagement strategies
   20.     Prescribed requirements for health equity strategies
   21.     Prescribed persons—giving effect to health equity strategies
   22.     Prescribed requirements for protocol with local primary healthcare organisations

   PART 5 - QUALITY ASSURANCE COMMITTEES

           Division 1 - Preliminary

   23.     Definitions for part

           Division 2 - Procedures of committees

   24.     Chairperson
   25.     Times and places of meetings
   26.     Quorum
   27.     Presiding at meetings
   28.     Conduct of meetings
   29.     Minutes
   30.     Other procedures

           Division 3 - Privacy policies

   31.     A committee must adopt a privacy policy
   32.     Content of privacy policy

           Division 4 - Information to be made available by committees

   33.     Specified information to be made available to the public

           Division 5 - Review and reporting obligations

   34.     Review of functions
   35.     Annual activity statement

           Division 6 - Miscellaneous

   36.     Prescribed patient safety entities and authorised purposes

   PART 6 - ROOT CAUSE ANALYSES

   37.     Reportable events
   38.     Prescribed patient safety entities and authorised purposes

   PART 7 - NURSE-TO-PATIENT AND MIDWIFE-TO-PATIENT RATIOS

   39.     References to shifts
   40.     Nurse-to-patient and midwife-to-patient ratios applying to particular acute adult wards—Act, s 138B
   40A.    Midwife-to-patient ratios applying to postnatal maternity wards—Act, s 138B
   40B.    Rounding of minimum number of nurses or midwives

   PART 8 - STATE AGED CARE FACILITIES

   41.     State aged care facilities—Act, ss 138H and 138I
   42.     Minimum nurse and registered nurse percentages—Act, s 138H
   43.     Minimum average daily resident care hours—Act, s 138I

   PART 9 - COMMITTEES OF BOARDS

   44.     Prescribed committees
   45.     Functions of a safety and quality committee
   46.     Functions of a finance committee
   47.     Functions of an audit committee

   PART 10 - CONFIDENTIALITY

   48.     Prescribed health professionals—Act, s 139
   49.     Prescribed information system—Act, s 139
   50.     Prescribed designated person—Act, s 139A
   51.     Disclosure of confidential information for purposes relating to health services—Act, s 150
   52.     Disclosure to Commonwealth, another State or Commonwealth or State entity—Act, s 151

   PART 11 - MISCELLANEOUS

   53.     Major capital works
           SCHEDULE 1
           SCHEDULE 2
           SCHEDULE 3
           SCHEDULE 4
           SCHEDULE 5
           SCHEDULE 6
           SCHEDULE 7
           SCHEDULE 7A
           SCHEDULE 8
           SCHEDULE 9