Mater Public Health Services Act 2008

The main object of this Act is to provide a statutory framework for the department and the Mater to enter into arrangements (the arrangements) about the delivery of public patient health services by the Mater hospitals and their funding.

It is Parliament’s intention that the arrangements—

recognise the major contribution made by the Mater and the Corporation of the Trustees of the Order of the Sisters of Mercy of Queensland to the delivery of public patient health services; and

take account of the quantity and quality of public patient health services delivered by the Mater hospitals by—

maintaining funding for the services while ensuring the most efficient and effective use of the funding; and

maintaining the clinical viability of delivering the services as part of all the health services delivered by the Mater hospitals; and

recognise the value of the Mater hospitals as teaching hospitals; and

have regard to the corporate governance and public accountability requirements of the department and the Mater.