Health Act 1956

National Cervical Screening Programme - Duties to provide information to women and to NCSP

112L: Duties of persons taking specimens for screening tests

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"What people taking health samples for tests must tell women before a cervical screening test"

When you take a specimen from a woman for a screening test and you think it's her first test in New Zealand, you must explain what will happen and tell her why regular tests are important. You have to tell her about the National Cervical Screening Programme, the good and bad things about being part of it, who can see her information, and how it will be used. You also have to tell her she will be part of the programme, but she can choose not to be by telling the programme manager, as stated in section 112G. If you think it's not her first test, you still have to give her some information about the test and the programme, but only as much as is reasonable.

If it's not her first test, you don't have to tell her as much as you would if it were her first test. You still have to follow any other rules about giving information that are in other laws. These rules are in addition to any other rules you have to follow when giving information to women having screening tests.

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Part 4ANational Cervical Screening Programme
Duties to provide information to women and to NCSP

112LDuties of persons taking specimens for screening tests

  1. Every person who takes a specimen from a woman for the purpose of a screening test, and who believes that it is that woman's first screening test in New Zealand, must—

  2. explain the procedure and provide information about the importance of having regular screening tests, the objectives of the NCSP, the risks and benefits of participation in the NCSP, who has access to information on the NCSP register, and the uses to which that information may be put; and
    1. advise the woman that she will be enrolled in the NCSP, but that she may prevent or cancel that enrolment by advising the NCSP manager under section 112G.
      1. Every person who takes a specimen from a woman for the purpose of a screening test, and who believes that it is not that woman's first screening test in New Zealand, must provide that woman with information about the procedure and about the NCSP to the extent that is reasonable in the circumstances.

      2. Subsections (1) and (2) do not limit any other obligation to provide information that arises under any other enactment or rule of law.

      Notes
      • Section 112L: inserted, on , by section 4 of the Health (National Cervical Screening Programme) Amendment Act 2004 (2004 No 3).