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HEALTH SERVICES ACT 1988 - SECT 134ZB

Minister may authorise collection, use and disclosure of confidential information between health service entities

    (1)     The Minister, by instrument, may authorise a health service entity or a health service entity in a class of health service entity to do any of the following for one or more specified quality and safety purposes—

        (a)     collect and use confidential information from another health service entity or a health service entity in a class of health service entity specified in the instrument;

        (b)     disclose confidential information to another health service entity or a health service entity in a class of health service entity specified in the instrument.

    (2)     The instrument must specify—

        (a)     the health service entities or class or classes of health service entity to which it applies; and

        (b)     the quality and safety purposes for which the health service entity may disclose confidential information.

    (3)     The instrument may include conditions relating to—

        (a)     the kind of confidential information that may be collected, used or disclosed; and

        (b)     how the confidential information is to be collected, used or disclosed.

    (4)     The instrument takes effect on the date specified in the instrument.

    (5)     The instrument must be published in the Government Gazette as soon as practicable after the day on which it is made, unless the instrument identifies or would enable the identification of an individual to whom the confidential information relates.

S. 134ZC inserted by No. 34/2019 s. 85.



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