Privacy Policy

At Balmain Village Health we take privacy and confidentiality seriously and are bound by the Privacy Act. The nature of medical practice requires that we collect your personal information for medical records. We endeavour to keep your personal information safe and accessed only by the authorised people. It may be necessary to disclose some of this information to others involved in your medical care outside this practice, including other specialist doctors, hospital staff or medical administration staff. If your information is being used for any other reason, beside the routine delivery of quality health care, your further consent will be obtained. Due to these privacy laws, results or any part of your medical record or details cannot be given to third parties without your written authorisation or under special legal circumstances. In engaging our professional services, you consent to the collection of this information for the purposes outlined above.

If you elect to have any email correspondence, you acknowledge and consent that your personal information may be transmitted or stored on overseas servers and that any information sent via email in the absence of a formal consultation should not be relied upon as medical advice.

Additionally, this website contains links to external websites. We aim to recommend the most up to date and evidence based sources however, recommendations do not always reflect the views of the doctors at Balmain Village Health. It is the responsibility of the user to make their own decisions on the accuracy, currency, reliability and correctness of the information provided by external websites. By linking to any websites we are not endorsing or recommending any third party products or services offered by virtue of any information on these websites.