Medicare Safety Net Reform

Privacy and your personal information

The Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care (the Department) invites you to share your views on the Medicare Safety Net.

Your personal information is protected by law, including the Privacy Act 1988 (Privacy Act) and the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs), and is being collected by the Department, via Citizen Space, for the purposes of conducting a consultation process in relation to the reform of the Medicare Safety Net arrangements, including the Original Medicare Safety Net, Extended Medicare Safety Net and the Greatest Permissible Gap. The Department will collect your personal information at the time that you provide a submission.

You should not include information in your submission about another individual who is identified, or reasonably identifiable. If you need to include information about another individual in your submission, you will need to inform that individual of the contents of this notice and obtain their consent to the Department collecting their personal information.

You can get more information about the way in which the Department will manage your personal information, including our privacy policy, at https://www.health.gov.au/resources/publications/privacy-policy 

You can obtain a copy of the Department’s privacy policy by contacting the Department using the contact details set out below.

The Department’s privacy policy contains information about:

• how you may access the personal information the Department holds about you and how you can seek correction of it; and

• how you may complain about a breach of

• the APPs; or
• a registered APP code that binds the Department; and
• how the Department will deal with such a complaint.

You can contact the Department by telephone on (02) 6289 1555 or free call 1800 020 103 or by using the online enquiries form at http://www.health.gov.au