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Hospital Circular 17/2008

Date Issued: 17 June 2008

Distribution: CEOs of rural health services, rural hospitals, rural multipurpose services, rural standalone community health centres

Subject: Rural public health care agencies alliances policy

This replaces circulars 6/2008 and 14/2008

This Rural public health care agencies alliances policy outlines government requirements for the operation of rural health information and communication technology (ICT) alliances.

The policy was first released as circular 6/2008 in April 2008 and updated as 14/2008. This circular updates the template joint venture agreement with changes to align it with the Australian accounting standards.

The principle change is to have the members agree, by simple majority vote, on the annual workplan and budget.  The changes are in section three of the policy document, and the following sections of the joint venture agreement template: recitals H and I, and clauses 1.3, 5 and 7.6. References to chief information officer in the policy document have also been altered to executive officer for consistency.

The policy otherwise remains unchanged.