28Functions of local health district boards

28 Functions of local health district boards

28 Functions of local health district boards

(1) The local health district board for a local health district has the following functions—

(a) to ensure effective clinical and corporate governance frameworks are established to support the maintenance and improvement of standards of patient care and services by the local health district and to approve those frameworks,

(b) to approve systems—

(i) to support the efficient and economic operation of the local health district, and

(ii) to ensure the district manages its budget to ensure performance targets are met, and

(iii) to ensure that district resources are applied equitably to meet the needs of the community served by the district,

(c) to ensure strategic plans to guide the delivery of services are developed for the local health district and to approve those plans,

(d) to provide strategic oversight of and monitor the local health district’s financial and operational performance in accordance with the State-wide performance framework against the performance measures in the performance agreement for the district,

(e) to appoint, and exercise employer functions in relation to, the chief executive of the local health district,

(e1) to ensure that the number of NSW Health Service senior executives employed to enable the local health district to exercise its functions, and the remuneration paid to those executives, is consistent with any direction by the Health Secretary or condition referred to in section 122(2),

(f) to confer with the chief executive of the local health district in connection with the operational performance targets and performance measures to be negotiated in the service agreement for the district under the National Health Reform Agreement,

(g) to approve the service agreement for the local health district under the National Health Reform Agreement,

(h) to seek the views of providers and consumers of health services, and of other members of the community served by the local health district, as to the district’s policies, plans and initiatives for the provision of health services, and to confer with the chief executive of the district on how to support, encourage and facilitate community and clinician involvement in the planning of district services,