Health Act 1956

National Cervical Screening Programme - Screening programme evaluators

112U: Director-General may designate screening programme evaluators

You could also call this:

"The boss of health can pick people to check how well health screening programmes are working."

The Director-General can choose one or more people to be screening programme evaluators at any time. You need to know that the Director-General decides the terms and conditions for these evaluators. The Director-General also decides what specific tasks each evaluator will do.

The Director-General tells each evaluator what tasks to do and what information they can access. This means the Director-General can limit what information an evaluator can see, depending on their tasks. The Director-General makes these decisions to control what information evaluators have access to.

The Director-General has this power under the Health Act 1956, which was amended by the Health (National Cervical Screening Programme) Amendment Act 2004. This amendment was made to help the Director-General manage screening programme evaluators. You can find more information about this amendment on the New Zealand legislation website.

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112T: Meaning of evaluate, or

"What 'evaluate' means: checking if a health programme is working well and finding ways to improve it"

112V: Criteria for designating employees of Ministry, or

"Who can be chosen to check and evaluate health screening programmes"

Part 4ANational Cervical Screening Programme
Screening programme evaluators

112UDirector-General may designate screening programme evaluators

The Director-General may, at any time and entirely at his or her discretion, designate 1 or more persons as screening programme evaluators on whatever terms and conditions the Director-General considers appropriate.
The Director-General must specify the particular evaluation functions to be performed by each person whom he or she designates as a screening programme evaluator.
The Director-General may limit the type of information that a person who is designated as a screening programme evaluator may have access to under this Part in accordance with the evaluation functions to be performed by that person.

Notes

Section 112U: inserted, on 7 March 2005, by section 4 of the Health (National Cervical Screening Programme) Amendment Act 2004 (2004 No 3).