Regulator guidance

IPC fact sheet: a guide to retention and storage of health information in NSW for private health service providers

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

Version: October 2025
Last read: 7 October 2026

The Privacy Commissioner's reading of section 25 of the Health Records and Information Privacy Act for private providers. It works through the seven-year and age-25 retention periods with examples, the record kept when information is deleted or transferred, electronic records that can be printed, security under HPP 5 and the Commonwealth Act on the national digital health record.

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