Our framework

The Health Equity Framework provides the policy settings, strategic directions and practical tools to support the 16 Hospital and Health Services (HHSs) to co-design, co-implement, and co-monitor their health equity strategies with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, in partnership with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community-Controlled Health Services, other healthcare providers and prescribed stakeholders.

Read more about the framework:

Our priorities

Health equity priority areas:

  1. Actively eliminate racial discrimination and institutional racism within the service
  2. Increasing access to healthcare services
  3. Influencing the social, cultural and economic determinants of health
  4. Delivering sustainable, culturally safe, and responsive healthcare services
  5. Working with Aboriginal people, Torres Strait Islander people and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and organisations to design, deliver, monitor and review health services.

First Nations health equity strategies

All hospital and health services (HHSs) in Queensland are required to co-develop and co-implement health equity strategies with First Nations stakeholders to:

  • achieve heath equity by improving health outcomes for First Nations peoples
  • eliminate interpersonal and institutional racism from the public health sector
  • strengthen decision-making and power sharing arrangements with First Nations peoples.

The health equity strategies are published by each HHS:

Last updated: 14 May 2026