Terms of Reference

1

Provide leadership, support for and oversight of the development and ongoing operations of GICS (including secretariat, stakeholder groups and reference groups).

2

Establish and annually review governance group membership, meeting and decision making processes to effectively support the GICS health services to collaborate to achieve improved cancer outcomes for the populations they serve.

3

Establish and maintain a sustainable model for collaboration and partnerships between health services, clinicians, consumers, stakeholders and Department of Health (DH) to achieve the VCAP targets and GICS strategic goals.

4

Work with the DoH to implement the GICS requirements as outlined in the annual policy and funding guidelines, including VCAP targets and ICS strategic goals, priorities and other state-wide initiatives.

5

Lead, endorse, monitor, support and evaluate the development, implementation and monitoring of the GICS strategic plan, and associated communication strategy, for GICS to achieve the relevant VCAP priorities and the GICS strategic goals within a sustainable approach.

6

Support, provide advice to and oversee the program manager and director in their role of facilitating the implementation of the GICS strategic and operational plans and achievement of the relevant VCAP priorities. Conduct annual review of the program manager and director’s performance in conjunction with the host agency chief executive officer.

7

Promote the work of GICS by sharing relevant ICS, participating health service and DH data and information with health services, clinicians and other key stakeholders.

8

Provide advice to health services within the ICS about systematic cancer services enhancement, improvement and implementation issues.

9

Ensure allocated funds are appropriately spent on the achievement of the relevant VCAP priorities and GICS strategic goals and provide regular reports to DH.

10

Ensure a clear and transparent process for access to and accountability of GICS funds, including appropriate financial delegation to the GICS program manager, monitoring budget against the operational plan and receiving regular budget reports from the host agency.

11

Ensure engagement with other key services from the community, primary and private sectors as required to achieve the VCAP and GICS strategic goals.

12

Develop, implement and monitor a strategy for engaging with consumers and community groups to enable their participation in achieving the VCAP and GICS strategic goals.

13

Establish stakeholder, reference and working groups to support clinical and stakeholder engagement and to progress the work of the ICS, ensuring clarity of purpose, and that specific skills and expertise are sought and utilised. Receive reports from, and give feedback to, these groups on their achievements and progress.

14

Take overall responsibility for strategic collaboration across GICS health services and between ICS

15

At the beginning of each governance meeting of the GICS Executive the Chair will call for a declaration of any Conflict of Interest

16

The MOU requires that governance group members be assigned portfolio roles aligned with strategic goals, the executive agreed that these roles be assigned as required and that not all members would have a portfolio role. Those assigned a portfolio role would chair any related task group.

17

The Executive agreed that there would be no permanent consumer on the Executive, rather feedback from consumer focus groups will be tabled at Executive meetings and consumers will sit on other GICS task groups and committees to give required consumer input.