17 July 2023
AS Van Wey
[FYI request #23363 email]
Kia ora
Your Official Information Act request, reference: GOV-026139
Thank you for your email of 4 July 2023, asking for the following information under the Official Information
Act 1982 (the Act):
This is a request for all information sharing agreements with External Clinical Advisors, HNZ (or each
DHB if it is not with HNZ), Red Health, Shakespeare Specialist Centre, Leinster Chambers, and
whichever other health agency or health organization, including self-employed business, whose
employees provided ACC sought and obtained external clinical advisor reports for treatment injury
claims in 2022.
The Health Information Privacy Code 2020 (HIPC) governs the sharing of medical information between
agencies in the health sector
You can read the HIPC on the Privacy Commissioner Website here:
https://privacy.org.nz/privacy-act-2020/codes-of-practice/hipc2020/
Contracts between providers and ACC are available on our website
If you go to our ‘Resources’ page on the ACC website and search ‘contracts’, you can view several pages of
contracts between ACC and service providers:
https://www.acc.co.nz/resources#/search/contracts. One example is the Service Schedule for Clinical Services (and specifically sections 8 and 14), found here:
https://www.acc.co.nz/assets/contracts/clinical-services-schedule.pdf
You can also view the general contract between ACC and providers here:
https://www.acc.co.nz/assets/contracts/health-contract-terms-conditions.pdf (see sections 9 and 12).
I have also attached, as Appendix 1, an agreement that we send to providers whenever we seek external
advice on a Treatment Injury claim. Page 5 mentions complying with the Privacy Act and HIPC.
If you have any questions about this response, please get in touch
You can email me at
[email address]. Ngā mihi
Sara Freitag
Acting Manager Official Information Act Services
Government Engagement
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