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Australian Privacy Principle 5 Notification
The Australian Government Department of Health (the Department) is bound by the Privacy Act 1988 and the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs).
The Department is collecting personal information that you provide in the relevant Form for the purposes of assessing the application or processing the notification (as the case may be). The collection of the personal information is authorised under the National Health Act 1953 (Cth) and delegated legislation under that Act.
If you do not provide the personal information requested in the relevant Form, the Department may not be able to assess the application or process the notification (as the case may be).
If necessary for the purposes of administering the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) or if required or authorised by law, the Department may disclose the personal information to other organisations and government departments including:
the Australian Government Department of Human Services;
the Australian Community Pharmacy Authority; and
contracted service providers who
deliver PBS programs and services, or
undertake activities related to analysis of data and/or Government reporting.
The Department is unlikely to disclose the personal information to overseas recipients.
If you disclose other people's personal information to this Department (for example, if you are an authorised representative of the applicant(s) and are lodging the application on their behalf; or if you are the applicant who is a registered medical practitioner and, in applying to supply pharmaceutical benefits, you provide personal information about the practitioner you are replacing or for whom you are providing locum medical services), in disclosing that personal information to the Department, you undertake that those other people have:
consented to the Department collecting and using their personal information for the purposes set out in this notice; and
read and understood this privacy notice.
The Department has an APP privacy policy.
You can obtain a copy of the APP privacy policy by contacting the Department using the contact details set out at the end of this notice. The APP privacy policy contains information about:
how you may access the personal information the Department holds about you and how you can seek correction of it;
how you may complain about a breach of
the APPs; or
a registered APP code that binds the Department; and
how the Department will deal with such a complaint.
The Department of Health can be contacted by:
telephone on (02) 6289 1555;
freecall 1800 020 103; or
using the online enquiries form .
Application for a hospital authority to supply pharmaceutical benefits and/or highly specialised drugs
Application for a medical practitioner to supply pharmaceutical benefits
Application for approval for change of ownership of a pharmacy (not involving relocation)
Application for approval to supply pharmaceutical benefits at particular premises
Application for permission to carry on business as a pharmacist by the legal personal representative of a deceased approved pharmacist
Application to carry on business as a pharmacist by a beneficiary of a deceased approved pharmacist
Authority to authorise pharmacist(s) to sign claim forms on behalf of a hospital authority
Authority to authorise pharmacist(s) to sign claim forms on behalf of approved pharmacist(s)
Authority to authorise pharmacist(s) to sign claim forms on behalf of section 91 permission holder
Deactivation of an approved pharmacist - guidelines
Notification of bank account details for a hospital authority
Notification of bank account details for an approved medical practitioner
Notification of bank account details for an approved pharmacist
Notification of change of pharmacy registered business (trading) name
Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) Approved Suppliers
Hospital Authorities
Medical Practitioners
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