Privacy Policy

Macquarie Heart is committed to protecting your privacy.

Our Privacy Policy ensures your right to privacy. We take all reasonable steps to ensure the security of any personal information that you may provide to us.

Your personal information will be used only for the purposes for which its collection was intended. Your personal information will not be sold by Macquarie Heart to any third party.

Our commitment in respect of personal information is to abide by the National Privacy Principles for the protection of personal information, as set out in the Privacy Act and any other relevant law.

We define your Personal Information as any information collected about you that makes your identity known.

Macquarie Heart collects information from you for the primary purpose of providing quality health care. Your personal details and a full medical history are needed so we may properly assess, diagnose, treat and be pro-active in your health care needs.

This means we will use the information you provide us in the following ways:

• Disclosure to others involved in your health care including treating doctors and specialists outside our specialist medical practice. This may occur through referral to other doctors, for medical tests and in the reports or results returned to us following referrals.
• Disclosure to other doctors in the practice, locums etc. attached to the practice for the purpose of patient care and teaching.
• Administrative purposes in running our specialist medical clinics.
• Billing purposes, including compliance with Medicare, DVA and Health Insurance Commission requirements.
• For research and quality assurance activities to improve individual and community health care and practice management. Your identity is usually not included in these instances but should your identity be required, you will be informed and given the opportunity to decline involvement.
• To comply with any legislative or regulatory requirements e.g. notifiable diseases.

You may request access or removal of any of the personal information that we may hold about you at any time by writing to Macquarie Heart.

You can decline to have your health information used in all or some of the ways outlined above (by crossing out relevant points and initialing) but it may influence our ability to manage your health care and provide the best outcome for you.

To enable us to continue assisting you in the future we request that you notify us of any inaccuracies or changes to your personal information.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time in response to changes in law, new technology or for other reasons.