Legal Compendium
Legal Compendium
A guide to key legal obligations of agencies forming part of NSW Health. This page provides links to laws and related NSW Health Policy Directives in the following subject areas:
- Children, young persons and perinatal
- Consent to treatment
- Drug and alcohol
- Employment, industrial relations, occupational health and safety
- End of life issues
- Environment and health care facilities
- Health administration and governance
- Health professionals
- Health services, poisons and therapeutic goods
- Human tissue, anatomy and disposal of bodies
- Incident management, complaints, protected disclosures, disciplinary/grievance procedures and litigation/legal matters
- Mental health
- Privacy
- Procurement and tenders
- Public health and infectious disease
- Record management, data collection, registers and reporting
- Research
- Victims of crime and domestic violence