Health and medical records held by public health facilities in NSW, such as your NSW hospital records, are maintained by the NSW Local health districts. To obtain access to your medical or health records from public health facilities, you will need to contact the relevant local health district.
More information about accessing medical records under the Health Records and Information Privacy Act is available from the NSW Information and Privacy Commission.
There are four ways that information held by the Ministry will be made available:
Much of the information held by the Ministry of Health is already publicly available. Resources you may wish to review, which are constantly updated, include:
You can ask the Ministry of Health what information it will make available to the public, in addition to the information contained on its website. Under the GIPA Act, the Ministry of Health is encouraged to release as much information as possible, in an appropriate way and free of charge (or at the lowest reasonable cost).
You can request access to specific information held by the Ministry of Health informally. If, after assessing the request, the information requested requires a formal application, you will be notified.
If the information is not available through manditory open access and proactive release, or your GIPA informal request for information has been declined, you can make a formal request for information. You will need to submit a formal access application and pay the $30 GIPA application fee,
