Regulator guidance

IPC fact sheet: privacy-related complaints under the HRIP Act

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

Version: November 2022
Last read: 7 October 2026

The Privacy Commissioner's account of how a patient complains about a breach of the privacy of their health information, including a refusal of access. It states that the Act applies to every organisation operating in NSW that is a health service provider or collects, holds or uses health information, and that a private sector health service provider is also bound by the Commonwealth Privacy Act 1988.

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