HEALTH SERVICES ACT 1997 - SECT 126
Health Secretary may enter into performance agreement with a public health organisation
HEALTH SERVICES ACT 1997 - SECT 126
Health Secretary may enter into performance agreement with a public health organisation
126 Health Secretary may enter into performance agreement with a public health
organisation
(1) The Health Secretary may enter into a performance agreement
with any public health organisation.
(2) A performance agreement may--
(a)
include the provisions of a service agreement (within the meaning of the
National Health Reform Agreement) for the organisation, and
(b) set
operational performance targets for the organisation in the exercise of
specified functions during a specified period, and
(c) provide for the
evaluation and review of results in relation to those targets, and
(d)
provide for the provision of such data or other information by a public health
organisation concerning the exercise of its functions that the State
determines is required to comply with the State's performance reporting
obligations under the National Health Reform Agreement.
(3) The public health
organisation must, as far as practicable, exercise its functions in accordance
with the performance agreement.
(4) The public health organisation is to
report the results of the organisation's performance under a performance
agreement during a financial year to the Health Secretary within 3 months of
the end of that year.
(5) The Health Secretary--
(a) is to evaluate and
review the results of the organisation's performance for each financial year
under the performance agreement and to report those results to the Minister,
and
(b) may make such recommendations to the Minister concerning those
results as the Health Secretary thinks fit.
