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Practice Data & Privacy

The ability to measure change and improvement is at the heart of the APCC Program’s methodology.

What Data is collected?
The Program collects aggregated practice level data only, specifically in the areas of diabetes, coronary heart disease and improving patient access to care) click here to view the current Program measures. A practice participating in the APCC Program will only submit aggregated de-identified patient data (being percentage based measurements) and hence does not include the personal health information of any of the practice's patients.

Do Commonwealth privacy laws require practices to obtain patient consent to submit data for APCC Program?
No. Commonwealth privacy laws do not apply to de-identified information or statistical data sets which would not allow the patient to be identified. A practice participating in the APCC Program will only submit aggregated de-identified patient data (being percentage based measurements). As such, a practice does not require patient consent to provide such data.

What use will be made of information about the performance of the practice?
Improvement Foundation (Australia) Ltd (the delivery organisation of the APCC Program) and the local Division of General Practice will only use information about the performance of a practice in the Program (performance data) to help improve that practice’s performance. The Improvement Foundation (Australia) Ltd will only use de-identified performance data (ie which does not identify the practice from which the performance data originates) for the purposes of reporting on and evaluating the Program. Aggregated de-identified performance data for multiple practices may be used to promote the benefits of the Program for quality system and health service improvements. The local Division of General Practice may use de-identified performance data for local quality system and service improvements.

For more information about measures and reporting click here.

To access the practice data privacy notice click here.