Queensland Consolidated Regulations

HOSPITAL AND HEALTH BOARDS REGULATION 2023 - REG 22

22 Prescribed requirements for protocol with local primary healthcare organisations

For section 42 (2) (a) of the Act , a protocol of a Service agreed with local primary healthcare organisations must—

(a) include the following—

(i) the objectives of the protocol;

(ii) how the protocol will contribute to the achievement of the organisational objectives of the Service;

(iii) the key issues on which the Service and the local primary healthcare organisations are to cooperate;

Examples of key issues for subparagraph (iii)—

• health service integration

• the protection and promotion of public health

• service planning and design for the Service

• local clinical governance arrangements

(iv) how the Service and local primary healthcare organisations will support the implementation of the protocol, including arrangements for sharing staff and allowing access to facilities and information management systems;

(v) arrangements for sharing information between the Service and local primary healthcare organisations to improve service delivery and health outcomes;

(vi) how the protocol aligns with the Service’s cooperative arrangements with other entities delivering services in the health, aged care and disability sectors to improve service delivery and health outcomes;

(vii) how the Service will use information obtained from implementing the protocol to continuously improve cooperation with local primary healthcare organisations under the protocol;

(viii) how the effectiveness of the protocol will be measured and publicly reported; and

(b) have regard to national and State strategies, policies, agreements and standards; and

(c) outline the relationship between the Service’s protocol and its consumer and community engagement strategy, clinician engagement strategy and health equity strategy; and

(d) require a summary of the key issues discussed and decisions made in each of the Service’s board meetings to be made available to the Service’s local primary healthcare organisations, subject to the board’s obligations relating to confidentiality and privacy.