Health Quality and Complaints Commission Act 2006
Queensland Parliamentary Counsel
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General Health Legislation
Queensland
1 July 2006
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Description
An Act to establish the Health Quality and Complaints Commission, to improve the quality of health services and to provide for the monitoring of the quality of health services and the management of health complaints, and for other purposes The Parliament of Queensland enacts.The main objects of this Act are to provide for
- Oversight and review of, and improvement in, the quality of health services; and
- Independent review and management of health complaints.
The objects are to be achieved mainly by establishing the Health Quality and Complaints Commission and conferring on the commission functions and powers, including functions
and powers relating to
- Monitoring, reviewing and reporting on the quality of health services; and
- Recommending action to improve the quality of health services; and
- Receiving and managing complaints about health services; and
- Helping users and providers to resolve health service complaints; and
- Preserving and promoting health rights.
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