At Kaikōura Healthcare your privacy and confidentiality will be fully respected. We hold and manage two types of information about you:
Purpose
We collect your health information to provide a record of care. This helps you receive quality treatment and care when you need it.
We also collect your health information to help:
- Keep you and others safe
- Plan and fund health services
- Carry out authorised research
- Prepare & publish statistics
- Train healthcare professionals
- Improve government services
Confidentiality and information sharing
Your privacy and the confidentiality of your information is really important to us.
- Your health practitioner will record relevant information from your consultation in your notes.
- Your health information will be shared with others involved in your healthcare and with other agencies with your consent, or if authorised by law.
For more comprehensive information, please read Enrolling with a General Practice.
Quality Improvement & Data Protection
✔ Kaikōura Healthcare participates in the PHO Performance Programme, a national quality improvement initiative.
✔ To measure healthcare effectiveness, we electronically submit clinical data attached to your National Health Index (NHI) number, but without your name or address.
✔ This de-identified data is used for Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora and Ministry of Health reports, ensuring services improve without compromising your privacy.