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Revised legislative proposals for Healthcare Identifiers - Submissions

This page contains submissions received from the public consultation on the revised legislative proposals for healthcare identifiers, including the release of an exposure draft of the Healthcare Identifiers Bill 2010.

The Australian Health Ministers’ Conference agreed to a second round of consultations on the legislative proposals for healthcare identifiers being held so that a broad range of perspectives could contribute to making the legislation robust and effective.

Submissions were invited from interested stakeholders. The public submission process closed on 7 January 2010.

In total, 54 written submissions were received. Submissions are available with the permission of 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.

Note that general disclaimers in covering emails have not been interpreted as a specific request or taken as sufficient reason for submissions to be treated confidentially.

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.



NumberSubmitted byPublished format
001Pauline AshfordWord
002Melbourne PathologyWord
003Susan SmithWord
004Australian Private Hospitals AssociationPDF
005Australian Dental Association Victorian BranchPDF
006Consumers Health Forum of AustraliaPDF
007Health Quality and Complaints CommissionWord
008Medical Indemnity Industry Association of AustraliaPDF
009Epworth HealthCarePDF
010Adam JohnstonWord
011Helen MikolajWord
012NSW Physiotherapists Registration BoardWord
013Health Consumers Council WAWord
014Law Council of AustraliaPDF
015Health Services CommissionerWord
016Health Information Management Association of AustraliaPDF
017Australian Medical AssociationPDF
018HCFPDF
019Australian Psychological SocietyWord
020Australia Bureau of StatisticsWord
021The Royal Australian College of General PractitionersPDF
022Australian Health Insurance AssociationPDF
023Office of the Victorian Privacy CommissionerPDF
024Australian Association of Pathology PracticesPDF
026Geoff Sims ConsultingWord
027Australian Osteopathic AssociationWord
028Health Insurance Restricted Membership Association of AustraliaPDF
029South Australian Department of HealthPDF
030Australian Institute of Health and WelfareWord
032Jennifer HeathWord
033HBFWord
034FaHCSIAWord
035Australian Nursing FederationPDF
036Bupa Australia GroupPDF
037Councils of Social ServicePDF
038Australian Commission of Safety and Quality in Health CarePDF
039Australian Dental AssociationPDF
040Insurance Council of AustraliaPDF
041Australian Federation of AIDS OrganisationsWord
042Medibank PrivatePDF
043Australian Physiotherapy AssociationPDF
044Australian Privacy FoundationPDF
045The Australasian College of Health InformaticsPDF
046Civil Liberties AustraliaPDF
047Australian Democrates ACT DivisionPDF
048Liberty VictoriaPDF
049AnonymousScanned PDF
050The Council of Ambulance AuthoritiesPDF
051Aged Care Industry IT CouncilPDF/Word
052Population Health Research NetworkPDF
053Office of the Privacy CommissionerWord
054Public Interest Advocacy CentrePDF
055National Rural Health AlliancePDF