Tasmanian Health Organisations Regulations 2014 (TAS)

Tasmanian Health Organisations Regulations 2014

I, the Governor in and over the State of Tasmania and its Dependencies in the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Executive Council, make the following regulations under section 79 of the Tasmanian Health Organisations Act 2011 .3 February 2014

PETER G. UNDERWOOD

Governor

By His Excellency’s Command,

MICHELLE O’BYRNE

Minister for Health

1Short titleThese regulations may be cited as the Tasmanian Health Organisations Regulations 2014 . 2CommencementThese regulations take effect on the day on which their making is notified in the Gazette. 3InterpretationIn these regulations – Act means the Tasmanian Health Organisations Act 2011 . 4Prescribed purpose of collection and provision of data (1) For the purposes of section 11(i) of the Act, the following are prescribed purposes: (a) the enabling of the planning and coordination, across the State as a whole, of the provision of relevant services; (b) the implementation of the clinical governance framework. (2)  For the purposes of subregulation (1) , the relevant services are – (a) health services; and (b) health support services; and (c) any other services that are associated with such services. (3)  For the purposes of subregulation (1) , the clinical governance framework is the document titled “Statewide Clinical Governance Framework for Tasmania’s Public Healthcare System”, signed by the Minister for Health, the Secretary of the Department and the Chair of the Governing Councils of the Tasmanian Health Organisations, dated September 2013, and as amended from time to time. 5Prescribed functionsFor the purposes of section 11(j) of the Act, it is a function of a Tasmanian Health Organisation to assist patients, and their escorts, to travel to and from, and be accommodated at, places at which, or in the vicinity of which, the patients are to receive health services.

Displayed and numbered in accordance with the Rules Publication Act 1953.

Notified in the Gazette on 12 February 2014

These regulations are administered in the Department of Health and Human Services.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the regulation) These regulations make provision for –

(a) a Tasmanian Health Organisation to collect information, and provide it to the Department, for the purposes of statewide health system management and other purposes; and (b) a Tasmanian Health Organisation to assist with the travel and accommodation costs of patients, and their escorts, for the purpose of receiving health services.