✨ HealthPAC Definitions
23 MARCH 2005
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 55
Expression
Meaning
Entitlement Period
A Permanent Entitlement Period, a Temporary Entitlement Period, or a Child Entitlement Period.
Gazette
The New Zealand Gazette, which is the official newspaper of the Government of New Zealand, published by the Department of Internal Affairs on a weekly basis.
General Practitioner
A Medical Practitioner who is registered in a vocational scope of practice as a general practitioner by the Medical Council of New Zealand under the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003.
Guardian
A Person who is a guardian under the Guardianship Act 1968.
HealthPAC
Health Payments, Agreements and Compliance, a business unit of the Ministry.
Health Information
Means the following information or classes of information about an identifiable individual:
(a) Information about the health of that individual, including his or her medical history;
(b) information about any disabilities that individual has, or has had;
(c) information about any health services or disability services that are being provided, or have been provided, to that individual;
(d) information provided by that individual in connection with the donation, by that individual, of any body part or any bodily substance of that individual or derived from the testing or examination of any body part, or any bodily substance of that individual; or
(e) information about that individual that is collected before or in the course of, and incidental to, the provision of any health service or disability service to that individual.
Health Information Privacy Code 1994
Means the code relating to privacy of Health Information issued under section 46 of the Privacy Act 1993.
Health Professional Authority
Any authority or body that is empowered by any statute or the rules of any body or organisation, to exercise disciplinary powers in respect of any Person who is involved in the supply of health and disability services.
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VUW Te Waharoa —
NZ Gazette 2005, No 55
Gazette.govt.nz —
NZ Gazette 2005, No 55
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