Victoria - Public Hospitals Policy and Funding Guidelines 1997-1998
Section A: Policy
6.2 Statutory Immunity
70 public acute hospitals have statutory immunity in line with Section 139 of the Health Services Act 1988. This represents 75 per cent of all public acute hospitals.
A review of statutory immunity will be undertaken during 1997-98 to:
- Evaluate the use of statutory immunity.
- Identify how statutory immunity processes can be used more effectively to enhance health care.
- Identify strategies to make statutory immunity more useful and attractive to providers as part of their quality assurance processes.
Agencies that do not have third party accreditation/certification or have not been declared under statutory immunity provisions of section 139 of the Health Services Act are required to have a quality assurance plan available to the Department on request.
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