Contact Details

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The Proper Officer, Northern Sydney Local Health District

Postal address:

Health Information Services

PO Box 4007

Royal North Shore LPO

St Leonards, NSW 2065

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Correspondence is preferred by email at: [email protected]

Costs

Requests for information from insurers or other parties must be accompanied with a valid consent and monies paid before any information is released.

Fees for copies of notes are $33.00 for the first 80 pages (inc. GST). Notes in excess of 80 pages are charged at $0.41 per page.

Cost recovery for the provision of other material e.g. reproduction of X-rays, audio-visual tapes, copies of photographs and operation footage contained on DVD's.

Fees for medical reports range from $329 - $846 dependent on category (see NSW Health Charging Policy - Health Records and Medical/Clinical Reports)

The Proper Officer, Northern Sydney Local Health District

Postal address:

PO Box 4007

Royal North Shore LPO

St Leonards, NSW 2065

Street address:

Northern Sydney Local Health District Executive

Level 14, Kolling Building

10 Westbourne Street

St Leonards, NSW 2065

Correspondence is preferred by email at: [email protected]

Subpoenas for health care records relating to a specific facility of Northern Sydney Local Health District should be addressed to the Health Information Services (HIS) Manager of the facility to which the records in the schedule relate.

You can find the contact details of our HIS Managers here. 

Note that subpoenas to appear to court should be served directly on the person.

Subpoenas for health care records held by multiple facilities and/or District services of Northern Sydney Local Health District, should be addressed to:

The Proper Officer, Health Information Services, Northern Sydney Local Health District

Postal address:

PO Box 4007

Royal North Shore LPO

St Leonards NSW 2065

Street address:

Royal North Shore Hospital

Building 29, Health Information Services

Reserve Road,

St Leonards NSW 2065

Correspondence is preferred by email at:  [email protected]

Subpoenas for records other than health care records, or where the schedules includes health care records as well as other types of records, should be addressed to:

The Proper Officer, Northern Sydney Local Health District

Postal address:

PO Box 4007

Royal North Shore LPO

St Leonards, NSW 2065

Street address:

Northern Sydney Local Health District Executive

Level 14, Kolling Building

10 Westbourne Street

St Leonards, NSW 2065

Correspondence is preferred by email at: [email protected]

Conduct Monies

The party issuing the subpoena shall be charged fees as per below, for each facility :

• At least 5 working days' notice is given for the production of the record to Court - $75
• Less than 5 working days' notice is given for the production of the record to Court -$113
• An additional photocopying fee of $0.41 per page is also applicable for all subpoena
  

Under Chapter 16A of the Children and Young Persons (Care and Protection) Act 1998, an organisation that is a prescribed body can be requested to provide and share any information it holds relating to the safety, welfare or wellbeing of a particular child or young person.

Information exchanged between prescribed bodies under Chapter 16A is preferably done so verbally, between a worker in a prescribed agency and a Health worker.

Prescribed bodies include services that work with children and young people or their families and include but are not limited to State Government agencies, Non-Government Organisations (NGOs), Aboriginal Medical Services, education providers and child care centres and Medical Practitioners.

Contact Details

Northern Sydney Local Health District Central Contact Point - Prevention & Response to Violence, Abuse & Neglect (PARVAN) Services
Telephone: (02) 8797 7174 (central)

Email address: [email protected]​