Health Act 1956

National Cervical Screening Programme - Duties to provide information to screening programme evaluators

112ZB: Duty of health practitioners

You could also call this:

"Health workers must share patient information to help with health checks"

If you are a health practitioner, you must give a screening programme evaluator any health information and specimens they need to do their job. This information and specimens must be about a relevant woman and you must give them for free. You will give them in the way the Director-General tells you to, if they specify how they want it.

The Director-General can tell you in writing how to give the health information and specimens. You must then give the information and specimens in the way they say.

You have to follow the rules so the screening programme evaluator can do their job properly, which is to look at the health information and specimens of a relevant woman.

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112ZA: Screening programme evaluator may publish non-identifiable information obtained during evaluation, or

"People checking screening programmes can share information if it doesn't reveal who someone is."

112ZC: Duty of persons who hold specimens, or

"People in charge of labs must give health information and specimens to evaluators for free when asked."

Part 4ANational Cervical Screening Programme
Duties to provide information to screening programme evaluators

112ZBDuty of health practitioners

Every health practitioner must make available, free of charge, to a screening programme evaluator, for the purpose of enabling that screening programme evaluator to perform the screening programme evaluator's functions, any health information and specimens that relate to a relevant woman.
The Director-General may specify, by notice in writing to the health practitioner, the manner and form in which health information or specimens that are required to be made available under subsection (1) must be made available, and that information or those specimens must be made available in that manner and form.

Notes

Section 112ZB: inserted, on 7 March 2005, by section 4 of the Health (National Cervical Screening Programme) Amendment Act 2004 (2004 No 3).