Health Information Act 2026

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PART 2

Duty to Share

Duty of health services provider to share personal health data with other health services providers

7. (1) A health services provider who is providing care and treatment to a patient (in this section referred to as the “forwarding health services provider”) shall, for the purposes of providing integrated care and treatment and continuity of care and treatment, forward such personal health data as he or she, having regard to guidelines, considers relevant, necessary and proportionate to the provision of such care and treatment to another health services provider who is also providing care and treatment to the patient concerned (in this section referred to as the “receiving health services provider”).

(2) The personal health data referred to in subsection (1), shall be forwarded by the forwarding health services provider to the receiving health services provider and received by that health services provider—

(a) in a digital format, utilising the standards and interoperability requirements specified in guidelines, and

(b) within the period specified in guidelines.