Healthcare Identifier Service
Healthcare Identifiers and Privacy - Submissions
This page contains submissions received from the public consultation on legislative proposals for Healthcare Identifiers and Privacy.
The Australian Health Ministers’ Conference asked for consultations to be held so that a broad range of perspectives could contribute to making the legislation robust and effective. Submissions were invited from interested stakeholders from 13 July to 14 August 2009. Extensions were also granted beyond the submission period. The public submission process has now closed.
In total, 93 written submissions were received. Submissions have been published here where permission has been granted by the author.
Accessibility
Submissions were forwarded to the Department in a range of formats including Word, RTF, PDF and handwritten or typed hardcopy. In order to make submissions available as soon as possible, most submissions have been published in their original format. Handwritten submissions have been scanned into PDF documents. The text of email submissions has been reproduced in Word format.
If you are unable to access any of the documents please contact the Department of Health and Ageing eHealth Branch on (02) 6289 3919 or ehealth@health.gov.au for an alternative version to be provided to you.
Confidentiality
Submissions have only been published where permission has been granted by the author.
Privacy
To ensure that the privacy of third parties (including family members) is protected, and that the Commonwealth complies with its own legal obligations, some submissions have been published with the submitter's first name only and/or with third party details removed. Private contact details (eg, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses) contained in submissions have also been removed. There may be minor formatting changes as a result.
NOTE: The views expressed in submissions are those of the authors and copyright in submissions remains with the authors, not with the Department.
