Health Ombudsman Act 2013
sec.7Meaning of health service
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sec.7 Meaning of health service
A health service is a service that is, or purports to be, a service for maintaining, improving, restoring or managing people’s health and wellbeing. A health service may be provided to a person at any place including a hospital, residential care facility, community health facility or home. A health service includes a support service for a service mentioned in subsection (1) . Also, without limiting subsection (1) , a health service includes— a service dealing with public health, including a program or activity for— the prevention and control of disease or sickness; or the prevention of injury; or the protection and promotion of health; and a cancer screening program a service providing alternative or complementary medicine; and a service prescribed under a regulation to be a health service. A health service does not include a service prescribed under a regulation not to be a health service. (sec.7-ssec.1) A health service is a service that is, or purports to be, a service for maintaining, improving, restoring or managing people’s health and wellbeing. (sec.7-ssec.2) A health service may be provided to a person at any place including a hospital, residential care facility, community health facility or home. (sec.7-ssec.3) A health service includes a support service for a service mentioned in subsection (1) . (sec.7-ssec.4) Also, without limiting subsection (1) , a health service includes— a service dealing with public health, including a program or activity for— the prevention and control of disease or sickness; or the prevention of injury; or the protection and promotion of health; and a cancer screening program a service providing alternative or complementary medicine; and a service prescribed under a regulation to be a health service. (sec.7-ssec.5) A health service does not include a service prescribed under a regulation not to be a health service.
- (a) a service dealing with public health, including a program or activity for— (i) the prevention and control of disease or sickness; or (ii) the prevention of injury; or (iii) the protection and promotion of health; and Example of health service mentioned in paragraph (a) — a cancer screening program
- (i) the prevention and control of disease or sickness; or
- (ii) the prevention of injury; or
- (iii) the protection and promotion of health; and
- (b) a service providing alternative or complementary medicine; and
- (c) a service prescribed under a regulation to be a health service.
- (i) the prevention and control of disease or sickness; or
- (ii) the prevention of injury; or
- (iii) the protection and promotion of health; and