Terms & Conditions / Patient Consent
Privacy Legislation
The Privacy Act 1988 requires medical practitioners to obtain consent from patients in order to collect, use and disclose patient’s personal information.
Please read this information before accepting these terms and signing the Patient Registration Form.
Information Collection
- We will collect information from you and sometimes from other medical practitioners and health care providers.
- My practice staff and I will participate in the collection of this information.
- Information collected includes a medical history, social history and billing details.
- Some images from operations or if photographed in the clinic may be maintained in your notes and included in letters to your doctor.
Information Use & Disclosure
Your records and personal information are considered strictly confidential.Therefore we require your consent to use your information to undertake the following:
- Communicate with your referring doctor and general practitioner
- Refer you to other medical practitioners / health care practitioners as required
- Referral for radiology tests or blood tests
- Management of our practice e.g billing, notification of insurers & employers
- Audit and research within our practice when legally required to do so
If you are cared for by Hands & All therapists, the therapists will have access to your records with us to assist with their clinical care of you.
If you are a WorkCover or motor vehicle insurance patient we will send copies of some relevant communications to your insurance company or employer.
All of the information obtained will be treated confidentially.
Any research data or presentation that utilised patient information or images will not include any informa- tion that could in any way identify individual patients.
Access
You may request a copy of your medical records, although a charge to cover the costs of this may be required.