Mater Public Health Services Act 2008

The chief executive, acting on behalf of the State, and the Mater may enter into an agreement for the arrangements.

The agreement may include matters relating to the following—

the period of the agreement;

reviewing and varying the agreement;

the department’s obligation to allocate funds to the Mater for the delivery of public patient health services by the Mater hospitals;

details of the department’s funding allocation to the Mater for each financial year;

providing extraordinary or emergency funding by the department to the Mater;

initiatives, performance targets, priorities, strategies, undertakings and other measures (the measures) relating to the delivery of the services;

the Mater’s obligations to deliver the services under the measures;

assessing the Mater’s performance against the measures;

the rights and obligations of the department and the Mater relating to matters of privacy and access to medical records;

reporting by the Mater to the department about the delivery of the services;

resolving disputes between the department and the Mater.

Subsection (2) does not limit the matters that may be included in the agreement.

A regulation may prescribe matters that must be included in the agreement relating to the funding that the department must provide for the purpose of staff entitlements.