Privacy and managing health information in general practice

Information management for patients

Your practice must align with notification requirements and privacy notices to support patients in understanding how their health information might be used. This also includes understanding the rights of access they will have.

Please read more on topics in this section via the links below:

Collection of health information

Read more on the ‘collection of health information’ here

Notification

Read more on Notification here

Chapters

Other Toolkits

My Health Record

Ensure general practices can meet their legislative requirements for staff training on the use of My Health Record.

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High-quality health records

The importance of coding essential clinical data, and strategies for the effective use of GP clinical information systems.

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