Healthcare Identifiers Amendment (Health Facilitation Programs) Regulations 2025
I, the Honourable Sam Mostyn AC, Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.
Dated 29 May 2025
Sam Mostyn AC
Governor‑General
By Her Excellency’s Command
Mark Butler
Minister for Health and Ageing
1 Name
2 Commencement
3 Authority
4 Schedules
Schedule 1—Amendments
Healthcare Identifiers Regulations 2020
This instrument is the Healthcare Identifiers Amendment (Health Facilitation Programs) Regulations 2025.
(1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.
Commencement information | ||
Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 |
Provisions | Commencement | Date/Details |
1. The whole of this instrument | The day after this instrument is registered. | 30 May 2025 |
Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.
(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.
This instrument is made under the Healthcare Identifiers Act 2010.
Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.
1 Section 5
Insert:
health facilitation program means a program that is operated or funded by one or more government bodies and that facilitates the provision of adequate and appropriate healthcare to healthcare recipients, or a class of healthcare recipients.
operator of a health facilitation program means the body, or any of the bodies, that operates the program.
2 At the end of Part 2
Add:
(1) This section is made for the purposes of subsection 25D(1) of the Act.
(2) An entity mentioned in column 1 of an item in the following table is authorised to take action of the kind described in column 2 of that item with information of the kind described in column 3 of that item in the circumstances described in column 4 of that item.
Collection, use and disclosure of individual healthcare provider information in relation to health facilitation program | ||||
Item | Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 | Column 4 |
1 | individual healthcare provider | use disclose to an operator of a health facilitation program or the service operator | healthcare identifier of the healthcare provider | the use or disclosure is for the purpose of: (a) determining the healthcare provider’s eligibility to participate in a health facilitation program; or (b) registering the provider to participate in a health facilitation program; or (c) the provider participating in a health facilitation program; or (d) if the provider has provided healthcare to healthcare recipients through a healthcare facilitation program—supporting continuity of healthcare to the healthcare recipients |
2 | individual healthcare provider | collect use | healthcare identifier of another healthcare provider | the collection or use is for the purpose of: (a) supporting the other provider’s participation in a health facilitation program; or (b) if the healthcare provider has provided healthcare to healthcare recipients through a healthcare facilitation program—supporting continuity of healthcare to the healthcare recipients |
3 | operator of a health facilitation program | collect from an individual healthcare provider use disclose to another healthcare provider or the service operator | healthcare identifier of an individual healthcare provider identifying information of an individual healthcare provider | the collection, use or disclosure is for the purpose of: (a) determining the healthcare provider’s eligibility to participate in the health facilitation program; or (b) registering the provider to participate in the program; or (c) managing the provider’s participation in the program; or (d) supporting the other provider’s participation in the program; or (e) if the provider has provided healthcare to healthcare recipients through the program—supporting continuity of healthcare to the healthcare recipients |
4 | service operator | collect from an individual healthcare provider or operator of a health facilitation program use disclose to an operator of a health facilitation program | healthcare identifier of the individual healthcare provider identifying information of the individual healthcare provider | the collection, use or disclosure is for the purpose of determining the healthcare provider’s eligibility to participate in the health facilitation program |
5 | operator of a health facilitation program | collect from service operator use | healthcare identifier of an individual healthcare provider identifying information of an individual healthcare provider | the collection or use is for the purpose of determining the healthcare provider’s eligibility to participate in the health facilitation program |
6 | operator of a health facilitation program | use disclose | healthcare identifier of an individual healthcare provider | the use or disclosure is for the purpose of evaluation, analysis or reporting relating to whether the program is supporting the delivery of adequate and appropriate healthcare to healthcare recipients, or a class of healthcare recipients |
7 | entity to whom healthcare identifier of an individual healthcare provider is disclosed for a purpose mentioned in column 4 of item 6 | collect use disclose | healthcare identifier of an individual healthcare provider | the collection, use or disclosure is for the purpose of evaluation, analysis or reporting relating to whether a health facilitation program is supporting the delivery of adequate and appropriate healthcare to healthcare recipients, or a class of healthcare recipients |
(1) This section is made for the purposes of subsection 25D(2) of the Act.
(2) An operator of a health facilitation program may adopt the healthcare identifier of an individual healthcare provider for use as the operator’s own identifier for the purposes of the health facilitation program.