PRIVACY POLICY
Because your confidentiality is important to us.
This privacy policy is to provide information to you, our patient, on how your personal information (which includes your health information) is collected and used within our practice, and the circumstances in which we may share it with third parties.
01 Why and when your consent is necessary?
When you register as a patient of our practice, you provide consent for our GPs and practice staff to access and use your personal information so they can provide you with the best possible healthcare. Only staff who need to see your personal information will have access to it. If we need to use your information for anything else, we will seek additional consent from you to do this.
​
02 Why do we collect, use, hold and share your personal information?
Our practice will need to collect your personal information to provide healthcare services to you. Our main purpose for collecting, using, holding and sharing your personal information is to manage your health. We also use it for directly related business activities, such as financial claims and payments, practice audits and accreditation, and business processes (e.g. staff training).
​
03 What personal information do we collect?
The information we will collect about you includes your:
-
names, date of birth, addresses, contact details
-
medical information including medical history, medications, allergies, adverse events, immunisations, social history, family history and risk factors
-
Medicare number (where available) for identification and claiming purposes
-
Healthcare identifiers
-
Health fund details.
05 Privacy and emails
Our emails including any files transmitted with it are confidential and are intended solely for the use of the addressee only. Any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing or copying of our emails and any file attachments is strictly prohibited if you are not the intended recipient.
04 Dealing with us anonymously
You have the right to deal with us anonymously or under a pseudonym unless it is impracticable for us to do so or unless we are required or authorized by law to only deal with identified individuals.
Examples of when it is impracticable:
-
In a dispute resolution it may be impracticable to investigate and resolve an individual’s particular complaint about how their case was handled unless the complainant provides their name or similar information
​