Queensland Consolidated Regulations

HOSPITAL AND HEALTH BOARDS REGULATION 2023 - REG 51

51 Disclosure of confidential information for purposes relating to health services—Act, s 150

(1) For section 150 (b) of the Act , each of the following entities is prescribed for evaluating, managing, monitoring or planning health services stated for the entity—

(a) Alfred Health ABN 27 318 956 319 and Monash University ABN 12 377 614 012 for collecting data about a relevant trauma patient for use in the Australian Trauma Registry;

(b) Services Australia for maintaining the Australian Immunisation Register;

(c) the Australian Orthopaedic Association ACN 000 759 795 for collecting data about joint replacement surgery for use in the Australian Orthopaedic Association National Joint Replacement Registry;

(d) the Australasian Cardiac Surgery Research Institution ABN 44 099 817 106 and Monash University ABN 12 377 614 012 for collecting data about cardiac surgery for use in the Australian and New Zealand Society of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgeons Cardiac Surgery Database;

(e) the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health ABN 92 124 762 027 for collecting data about eligible stroke and transient ischaemic attack patients for use in the Australian Stroke Clinical Registry and for community based follow-up;

(f) Alfred Health ABN 27 318 956 319 for collecting data about a relevant asplenic patient for use in the Spleen Australia registry.

(2) Also for section 150 (b) of the Act , each of the following entities is prescribed for evaluating, managing, monitoring or planning health services relating to the implementation and management of the National Disability Insurance Scheme—

(a) National Disability Insurance Agency;

(b) the following departments of government—

(i) the department in which the Disability Services Act 2006 is administered;

(ii) the department in which the Housing Act 2003 is administered;

(iii) Queensland Treasury.

(3) In this section—

"injury severity score" , for a person, means an overall score of the severity of the person’s physical injuries worked out using an anatomical scoring system.

"National Disability Insurance Scheme" see the National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013 (Cwlth) , section 9 .

"relevant asplenic patient" means a person with—

(a) asplenia; or

(b) reduced spleen function due to a medical condition or intervention.

"relevant trauma patient" means a person who attends a public sector hospital for treatment of a physical injury and—

(a) dies as a direct or indirect result of the injury—

(i) after receiving treatment in the hospital’s emergency department; or

(ii) at any time during admission to the hospital; or

(b) has an injury severity score greater than 12.