Health Services Act 1997

The Health Secretary may enter into a performance agreement with any public health organisation.

A performance agreement may—

include the provisions of a service agreement (within the meaning of the National Health Reform Agreement) for the organisation, and

set operational performance targets for the organisation in the exercise of specified functions during a specified period, and

provide for the evaluation and review of results in relation to those targets, and

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.

The public health organisation must, as far as practicable, exercise its functions in accordance with the performance agreement.

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.

The Health Secretary—

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

may make such recommendations to the Minister concerning those results as the Health Secretary thinks fit.