Westland Medical Centre (WMC) is committed to protecting the privacy, dignity, and confidentiality of all patients by ensuring that personal health information is collected, used, stored, and disclosed in accordance with the Privacy Act 2020 and the Health Information Privacy Code 2020.

To support your healthcare, we may collect health information directly from you or receive relevant information from other healthcare providers and organisations involved in your care, such as hospitals, specialists, laboratories, pharmacies, or other authorised health services.

WMC will take all reasonable steps to ensure your information is managed securely, accessed only by authorised individuals, and that our collection, use and sharing of health information complies with the Privacy Act 2020, the Health Information Privacy Code 2020, and the notification requirements of Information Privacy Principle 3A (IPP3A).

You have the right to access your health information, request corrections where appropriate, and ask questions about how your information is managed.