Queensland Numbered Acts

HEALTH AND HOSPITALS NETWORK ACT 2011 No. 32 - SECT 40

(1) A network must develop and publish the following strategies—

(a) a strategy (a clinician engagement strategy) to promote consultation with health professionals working in the network; 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 network.

(2) The network must consult with the following persons in developing the strategies—

(a) for the clinician engagement strategy—health professionals working in the network;

(b) for the consumer and community engagement strategy—health consumers and members of the community.

(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 network must give effect to the strategies in performing its functions under this Act.