Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts

HEALTH ACT 1993

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   PART 1--PRELIMINARY

   1.      Name of Act  
   2.      Dictionary  
   3.      Notes  
   4.      Offences against Act—application of Criminal Code etc  

   PART 2--IMPORTANT CONCEPTS

   5.      What is a health service?  
   6.      What is a health facility?  
   7.      Who is a health service provider?  
   8.      What is the local hospital network?  

   PART 3--HEALTH CARE PRINCIPLES

   10.     Objectives  
   11.     Medicare principles and commitments  
   12.     Legal effect  

   PART 3A--LOCAL HEALTH AND HOSPITALS NETWORK

           Division 3A--.1 Establishment, functions and members of Local Hospital Network Council

   13.     Local Hospital Network Council  
   14.     Functions of council  
   15.     Council report to Minister etc  
   16.     Membership of council  
   17.     Members of council  
   18.     Chair and deputy chair  
   19.     Term of appointment of members  
   19A.    Ending of appointment of members  
   19B.    Conditions of appointment generally  

           Division 3A--.2 Proceedings of council

   19C.    Time and place of meetings of council  
   19D.    Procedures governing proceedings of council  
   19E.    Council—disclosure of interests  

           Division 3A--.3 Review of pt 3A

   19F.    Review of pt 3A  

   PART 4--QUALITY ASSURANCE

           Division 4.1--Quality assurance—important concepts

   20.     Definitions—pt 4  
   21.     What is a health professional organisation?  
   22.     Who is the CEO of a health facility?  
   23.     Who is the CEO of a health professional organisation?  

           Division 4.2--Quality assurance—quality assurance committees

   24.     What is a quality assurance committee?  
   25.     Approval of health facility QACs  
   26.     Approval of health professional organisation QACs  
   27.     Approval of special purpose QACs  
   27A.    Quality Assurance Committees—term  
   28.     Quality assurance committees—criteria for approval  
   29.     Quality assurance committees—revocation of approval  
   30.     Quality assurance committees—functions  
   31.     Quality assurance committees—appointment of members  
   32.     Quality assurance committees—disclosure of interests  
   33.     Quality assurance committees—procedure  
   34.     Quality assurance committees—protection of members etc from  
   35.     Quality assurance committees—obtaining information  

           Division 4.3--Assessment and evaluation of health services

   36.     Assessment and evaluation of health services  
   37.     Approval of quality assurance activities  
   38.     Preparing health service reports  
   38A.    Extraordinary reports  
   38B.    Interim reports  
   39.     Giving health service reports to CEO or director-general  
   40.     Monitoring implementation of recommendations  

           Division 4.4--Quality assurance committees—reporting

   41.     Annual quality assurance committee report to Minister  
   42.     Other quality assurance committee reports  

           Division 4.5--Quality assurance committees—information sharing

   43.     Quality assurance committees—giving information to the Coroner's  
   44.     Quality assurance committees—giving information to other quality assurance  
   45.     Quality assurance committees—giving information to health board and health  
   46.     Quality assurance committees—giving information to Minister  
   47.     Quality assurance committees—admissibility of evidence  

   PART 5--REVIEWING SCOPE OF CLINICAL PRACTICE

   50.     Definitions—pt 5  
   51.     What is a scope of clinical practice committee?  
   52.     Who is a doctor or dentist for a health facility?  
   53.     Who is the CEO of a health facility?  
   54.     What is scope of clinical practice?  
   55.     Meaning of review scope of clinical practice  
   56.     Approval of scope of clinical practice committees  
   57.     Scope of clinical practice committees—criteria for approval  
   58.     Scope of clinical practice committees—revocation of  
   59.     Scope of clinical practice committees—functions  
   60.     Scope of clinical practice committees—appointment of  
   61.     Scope of clinical practice committees—disclosure of  
   62.     Scope of clinical practice committees—procedure  
   63.     Scope of clinical practice committees—protection of members etc from  
   64.     Scope of clinical practice committees—obtaining information  
   65.     Scope of clinical practice committee must give doctor or dentist opportunity to  
   66.     Interim and emergency withdrawal or amendment of scope of clinical practice by  
   67.     Preparing scope of clinical practice reports  
   68.     Giving scope of clinical practice reports to CEO of health facility and doctor or  
   69.     CEO may make interim or emergency decision on scope of clinical  
   70.     CEO must make decision on scope of clinical practice report  
   71.     When CEO decision on scope of clinical practice report takes  
   72.     CEO may give information about decision to health facility outside  
   73.     Request for information by health facility outside ACT  
   74.     Scope of clinical practice committees—giving information to health board and  
   75.     Scope of clinical practice committees—admissibility of  
   76.     Sharing information with other committees  
   77.     Sharing information with 3rd parties  
   78.     Complainants to remain anonymous  

   PART 6--ABORTIONS

   80.     Meaning of abortion for pt 6  
   81.     Only doctor may carry out abortion  
   82.     Abortion to be carried out in approved medical facility  
   83.     Approval of facilities  
   84.     No obligation to carry out abortion  

   PART 7--VMO SERVICE CONTRACTS

   100.    Definitions for pt 7  
   101.    Service contracts  
   102.    Core conditions  
   103.    Collective negotiations  
   104.    Negotiating agents  
   105.    Authorised representatives  
   106.    Arbitration  
   107.    Competition and Consumer Act authorisation  

   PART 8--SECRECY

   120.    Definitions—pt 8  
   121.    When is information divulged?  
   122.    Who is an information holder?  
   123.    What is protected information?  
   124.    What is sensitive information?  
   125.    Offence—secrecy of protected information  
   126.    Information may be given to Medicare Australia  

   PART 8A--OFFENCE--PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES BY NON-HEALTH PRACTITIONERS

   127.    Provision of regulated health service by person not health  

   PART 9--PHARMACISTS AND PHARMACY PREMISES

   128.    Meaning of community pharmacy—pt 9  
   128A.   Complying pharmacy corporation  
   128B.   Standard of premises  
   129.    Restriction on pharmacy premises—supermarkets  

   PART 10--REVIEW OF DECISIONS

   130.    Review of decisions  
   131.    Pt 9 obligations—no contracting out  

   PART 15--MISCELLANEOUS

   189.    Protection of doctor or dentist from liability in emergency  
   190.    Disclosure of interests by committee members  
   191.    References to Health and Community Care Service  
   192.    Determination of fees  
   193.    Payment of fees and interest  
   194.    Approved forms  
   195.    Regulations about nurse practitioners  
   196.    Regulation-making power  
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