We require your consent to collect personal information about you. Our medical practice collects information from you for the primary purpose of providing quality health care. We require you to provide us with your personal details and a full medical history so that we may properly assess, diagnose, treat and be pro-active in your health care needs.
This means we will use the information you provide in the following ways:

• Administration purpose required for running our medical practice
• Billing purposes, including compliance with Medicare Australia, Department of Veterans’ Affairs, the Health Insurance Commission and RiskCover
• Disclosure to others involved in your health care, including treating doctors and specialist outside the medical practice. This may occur through referrals to other doctors, or for medical tests and in the reports or results returned to us following referrals
• Disclosure to other doctors in the practice, locums and registrars attached to the practice for the purpose of patient care and teaching

On occasion, the practice may undertake research and quality assurance activities. Disclosures for these activities to improve individual and community health care and practice management. You will be informed when such activities are being conducted and given the opportunity to “opt out” of any involvement. Please let us know if you DO NOT want your records accessed for these purposes, and this will be noted in your record

For more information on our privacy policy, please read our Privacy Pamphlet.