Please be aware of how this practice uses the information collected from your Personal Health Summary and Record:

• To communicate relevant information with other treating doctors, specialists or allied health professionals.
• To follow up reminder/recall notices.
• For accounting, Medicare and health insurance procedures.
• For Quality Assurance activities, e.g. Accreditation, de-identified data extraction
• To notify any Infectious Disease.
• To comply with Court of Law Request, e.g. subpoena.
• To aid in Research Purposes (patient identity undisclosed)
  
  

Your medical record is a confidential document. It is the policy of this practice to maintain the security of all personal health information at all times, ensuring it is accessible only to authorised staff in compliance with legal and regulatory requirements.

Any patient documents are securely scanned and then disposed of in confidential bins for shredding.

If you have any concerns or wish to place restrictions on access to your personal health information, please discuss this with your doctor.

All staff members at this practice have signed a confidentiality agreement to uphold the privacy of your information