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Health Technology Governance Policy

Applicable to: This policy is applicable to all Health Service Providers with the exception of Health Support Services.

Description: The purpose of the Health Technology Governance Policy (the policy) is to specify clinical governance, safety and quality requirements for the introduction and use of health technologies within the WA health system. Health Service Providers are responsible for ensuring that health technologies are evidence-based and used safely, ethically, and in a clinically and cost-effective way.

Health technologies include procedures, diagnostic techniques and medical devices intended to prevent, diagnose or treat medical conditions, promote health or provide rehabilitation. Some health technologies (e.g. novel biological therapies and gene therapies) are complex and carry significant cost and/or service delivery implications that warrant a coordinated state-wide approach being taken to inform planning, funding and implementation in the WA health system.

This policy is a mandatory requirement for Health Service Providers under the Clinical Governance, Safety and Quality Policy Framework pursuant to section 26(2)(a) and (c) of the Health Services Act 2016.

This policy should be read in conjunction with MP 0161/21 Procurement and Contract Management Policy and MP 0004/16 Procurement Development and Management System Policy.

Date of effect: 03 February 2021

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