Regulatory Reform Omnibus Act 2025 (73 of 2025)

Schedule 1   Amendments to support a 'tell us once' approach to government service delivery

Part 2   Enhancing use and adoption of healthcare identifiers

Division 1   Healthcare Provider Directory

Healthcare Identifiers Act 2010

19   Subsections 31(1) to (3)

Repeal the subsections, substitute:

(1) The Healthcare Provider Directory Operator must establish and maintain a record (the Healthcare Provider Directory ) of the professional and business details of identified healthcare providers.

(2) The purposes of the Healthcare Provider Directory are the following:

(a) to make professional and business details of healthcare providers available to entities that are authorised to access the directory;

(b) to enable communication between entities that are authorised to access the directory and healthcare providers about:

(i) healthcare and support services; and

(ii) health administration;

(c) any other purpose prescribed by the regulations.

(3) Subject to subsection (8), the Healthcare Provider Directory may be kept in any form that the Healthcare Provider Directory Operator considers appropriate.

(3A) The Healthcare Provider Directory Operator is authorised to:

(a) collect and use the following information:

(i) a healthcare identifier of an identified healthcare provider;

(ii) identifying information of an identified healthcare provider;

(iii) professional and business details of an identified healthcare provider;

for the purposes of the Healthcare Provider Directory; and

(b) disclose that information on the Healthcare Provider Directory to the following:

(i) an identified individual healthcare provider;

(ii) an identified healthcare provider organisation;

(iii) a health administration entity;

(iv) an entity prescribed by the regulations;

for the purposes of the Healthcare Provider Directory.

(3B) The service operator is authorised to disclose the following information to the Healthcare Provider Directory Operator for the purposes of the Healthcare Provider Directory:

(a) a healthcare identifier of an identified healthcare provider;

(b) identifying information of an identified healthcare provider;

(c) professional and business details of an identified healthcare provider.

Note: Subsections (3A) and (3B) provide an authorisation for the purposes of the Privacy Act 1988 and other laws.