Privacy Commissioner - Te Mana Matapono Matatapu

Health Information Privacy Code

This code sets specific rules for agencies in the health sector to better ensure the protection of individual privacy. The code addresses the health information collected, used, held and disclosed by health agencies. For the health sector the code takes the place of the information privacy principles.

The Privacy Commissioner has recently issued an amendment to the Health Information Privacy Code (amendment no. 6). This came into force on 1 November 2007.