Relationship Agreement for the Public Hospital Sector

This template agreement has been developed by the DHS Academic Institution: Health Service Undergraduate and Research Relationship Working Group to establish roles and responsibilities for undergraduate clinical placements in Victorian public health services.
 
The agreement has been developed to introduce consistency and clarity across Victoria, with the expectation that health services and universities will uniformly adopt these as the basis of their contractual arrangements.
 
The template has however been designed to include a degree of flexibility by giving universities and health services the opportunity to include specific clauses relevant to their particular needs. For example, course administration, GST and termination of agreement clauses may be customised on a case-by-case basis to suit the individual needs of the various institutions concerned. Such additional clauses are listed at Schedule 1.

The Victorian Managed Insurance Authority, which provides the Victorian Government with risk management and insurance services, has endorsed the relevant clauses on insurance and indemnity, hence these clauses should not be altered in any way.

The template agreement also includes clauses covering the reimbursement of cost of formal teaching hours, additional contributions for undergraduate medical student placements, and administrative arrangements.  The updated template (May 2008) now includes the contribution rates for 2008 students.