New South Wales Consolidated Acts

HEALTH ADMINISTRATION ACT 1982 - SECT 8

8 Functions of the Director-General

(1) The Director-General shall have and may exercise such functions as are conferred or imposed on the Director-General by or under this or any other Act.

(2) The Director-General shall have and may exercise the following functions:

(a) to initiate, promote, commission and undertake surveys and investigations into:

(i) the health needs of the people of New South Wales,

(ii) the resources of the State available to meet those needs, and

(iii) the methods by which those needs should be met,

(b) to inquire into the nature, extent and standards of the health services, facilities and personnel required to meet the health needs of the people of New South Wales and to determine the cost of meeting those needs,

(c) to plan the provision of comprehensive, balanced and co-ordinated health services throughout New South Wales,

(d) to formulate the programs and methods by which the health needs of the people of New South Wales may be met,

(e) to undertake, promote and encourage research in relation to any health service,

(f) to facilitate the provision of health services by any council (within the meaning of the Local Government Act 1993 ) or by any other body or person,

(g) to facilitate the provision by any Government Department, statutory authority, other body or person of social welfare services necessary or desirable to complement any health service,

(h) to promote and facilitate the provision of the professional, technical or other education or training of any persons employed or to be employed in the provision of any health service,

(i) to promote and facilitate a system of health care for the people of New South Wales provided by private bodies, institutions, associations and persons, as well as by the State and public bodies,

(j) to do such supplemental, incidental or consequential acts as may be necessary or expedient for the exercise of the Director-General’s functions under the foregoing provisions of this subsection.

(3) The Director-General is, in the exercise of functions conferred or imposed on the Director-General by or under any Act administered by the Minister for Health, subject to the control and direction of the Minister, except in relation to the contents of a recommendation or report made by the Director-General to the Minister.