Jessie McPherson Private Hospital is required to collect and ensure the privacy of your health information in accordance with the Health Records Act 2001.
This Act and the Freedom of Information Act 1982 give you right of access to your health record, please write to:

General Manager & Director of Nursing
Jessie McPherson Private Hospital
246 Clayton Rd
CLAYTON VIC 3168

Jessie McPherson Private Hospital may use health information without obtaining your specific consent:

If necessary for staff to safely and effectively provide treatment for you

For the purposes of funding, management, planning, monitoring, improvement or evaluation of health services provided. You cannot be identified

For research approved by our Ethics Committee. They will evaluate each research project and protect the privacy of individuals participating

Where required to do so by law, we provide patient details to the Australian Red Cross Society to trace blood or blood products. There are statutory reporting requirements in respect to a child considered to be at risk. Some infectious diseases have to be notified to the Department of Human Services.

Jessie McPherson Private Hospital can decline to give you access to the whole, or part of, your health record if we believe, on reasonable grounds, that to do so would pose a serious threat to the life or health of any person (including your own). Southern Health can also decline to give you access to information given to us in confidence by another person, such as a friend or relative.