Regulator guidance

IPC fact sheet: providing access to health information, guidance for health care providers

Information and Privacy Commission NSW. Factsheet, New South Wales.

Version: October 2025
Last read: 7 October 2026

The Privacy Commissioner's guidance on a patient's right of access to their health information under the Health Records and Information Privacy Act. It covers who can ask, the forms access can take, the situations in which access can be refused and what an access request looks like.

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