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Corrections Act 2004

Corrections system - Miscellaneous - Health records

165: Health records

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"Prison staff must keep prisoners' health records safe and separate from other prison records."

When you are a medical officer at a prison, you must keep a record of the health care you give to prisoners. You have to keep this record safe and separate from the prisoner's other prison records. This means the health record is not part of the files the prison keeps on a prisoner.

As a health centre manager, you have to make sure health records are kept properly. This includes keeping a record of the health care given to prisoners and keeping all health records, including dental records, safe. You must also keep health records separate from a prisoner's other prison records.

You can find more information about changes to this rule in section 38 of the Corrections Amendment Act 2013.

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Part 2Corrections system
Miscellaneous: Health records

165Health records

  1. Every medical officer must ensure that an adequate record of the health care or treatment provided by that officer to a prisoner at a prison is maintained and kept securely and not treated as part of the prison records for that prisoner or former prisoner, as the case may be.

  2. Every health centre manager must ensure that—

  3. an adequate record of the health care or treatment provided to a prisoner at a prison is maintained; and
    1. full health records (including dental records of prisoners or former prisoners at the prison) are kept securely; and
      1. the health record of any prisoner or former prisoner at the prison is not treated as part of the prison records of that prisoner or former prisoner, as the case may be.

        Notes
        • Section 165: replaced, on , by section 38 of the Corrections Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 5).