Department of Health

Part of the Health portfolio and a Federal authority, also called Health

Services for the aged, including carers; Public health and medical research; Health promotion and disease prevention; Primary health care of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people; Pharmaceutical benefits; Health benefits schemes; Specific health services, including human quarantine; National drug abuse strategy; Regulation of therapeutic goods; Notification and assessment of industrial chemicals; Gene technology regulation.

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Copy of contracts between the Department and Primary Health Networks
Request to Department of Health by Melissa Sweet. Annotated by Locutus Sum on .

Refused.

I have marked this as "refused". It is a deemed refusal because the authority did not give the applicant a notice of decision within the required time....
Briefing documents and reports on health impacts of climate change
Request to Department of Health by Melissa Sweet. Annotated by Locutus Sum on .

Refused.

The applicant has not told Right to Know the status of this request and I have been asked to update the status. Note 1: Mostly I classify a response...
Primary Health Network Mental Health Lead Site Project (Lead Site Project) evaluation
Request to Department of Health by Mitchell Ward. Annotated by Locutus Sum on .

Information not held.

The decision by the authority looks very reasonable although it is not actually what the Act requires. When there are no relevant documents for an FOI...
Review of Australian drug diversion programs
Response by Department of Health to Will Tregoning on .

Waiting clarification.

Attention: Will Tregoning Thank you for your request to the Australian Government Department of Health (Department) of 19 February 2019 seeking acces...
Evaluation of Primary Health Networks
Request to Department of Health by Melissa Sweet. Annotated by Locutus Sum on .

Refused.

The applicant has not told Right to Know the status of this request and I have been asked to update the status. Note 1: Mostly I classify a response...
Terms of Reference for 2018 Review of Breast Density and Screening Position Statement
Response by Department of Health to Michael Shephard on .

Successful.

Attention: Michael Shephard     Please see attached correspondence in relation to your FOI request to the Department of Health.   Kind regar...
Number of GPs and Specialists (by speciality) per QLD Postcode
Response by Department of Health to William Burr on .

Refused.

Attention:  William Burr   In relation to your request below, the purpose of the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (FOI Act)  is for the public to r...
Number of complaints by baby boomers for their parents in aged care facilities
Request to Department of Health by Rickie Hardiman. Annotated by Locutus Sum on .

Information not held.

This request was handled very nicely by the agency. They did not have the information but the officer consulted with another agency that might have the...
Review of Australian drug diversion programs
Follow up sent to Department of Health by Will Tregoning on .

Withdrawn by the requester.

I have a separate request for the same report. This first request omitted the mention of the FOI Act. The newer request includes this detail, and ha...
ATM Modernising Health and Aged Care Payments Services Program
Response by Department of Health to David Brown on .

Successful.

Dear Mr Brown I am emailing in regards to your request made on 27 January 2019 to the Department of Health (the Department) seeking access to document...
Agreement That Involves Transfer of Radioactive Waste to ARPANSA's building in Yallambie
Follow up sent to Department of Health by Sun Shine on .

Long overdue.

I'm providing an update. The requested document, an MOU, is an agreement that involves ARPANSA funding for a project at the University of Melbourne,...
Documents not available for download from your FOI log or reasoning
Request to Department of Health by Posty. Annotated by Posty on .

Long overdue.

The “not recording the number of requests” comment is not a good sign. Yes, technically they don’t, but had I asked for copies of them that would hav...
PIPAG minutes.
Request to Department of Health by Antony Scholefield. Annotated by Locutus Sum on .

Refused.

I have said that this request was refused because the correspondence terminates suddenly. But it is possible that the applicant continued to correspond...
Ministerial briefing documents on health impacts of climate change
Response by Department of Health to Melissa Sweet on .

Waiting clarification.

Dear Ms Sweet   I refer to your two attached FOI requests to the Department of Health, received on 13 October 2018, seeking respectively:   · ...
Private use of social media advice provided to employees
Response by Department of Health to James Smith on .

Partially successful.

Dear Mr Smith   I refer to your request of 045-1718 to the Department of Health (Department), seeking access under the Freedom of Information Act...
FOI Delegations
Request sent to Department of Health by Ben Fairless on .

Long overdue.

Under section 23 of the Freedom of Information Act, the principal officer or minister can make arrangements to give their decision making powers to...
Correspondence between HBF and the Department
Response by Department of Health to Ben Fairless on .

Long overdue.

Attention: Ben Fairless   Please see attached documents in relation to your internal review request to the Department of Health.   Regards  ...
Current subsection 6(1) orders
Response by Department of Health to Jay Doe on .

Successful.

Attention:  Jay Doe   We refer to your FOI request to the Department of Health regarding orders made under subsection 6(1) of the Health Insurance A...
National Public Toilet Map development and maintenance records
Response by Department of Health to Simon Victory on .

Refused.

Dear Mr Victory   By notice in writing dated 22 February 2018, Mr Nick Morgan, Assistant Secretary of the Home Support and Hearing Branch, advised...
Penalties in place for accessing health information without permission from My Health Record?
Follow up sent to Department of Health by Sue Q on .

Successful.

Many thanks for your comprehensive and enlightening response. Yours sincerely, Sue Q
The provision of ASADA funds to WADA to prosecute Australian citizens
Request to Department of Health by Philip Nelson. Annotated by Philip Nelson on .

Refused.

I refer to the above annotation: When dealing with FOIs, its important to be specific. The document may exist, but may not be held by that depart...
Improvement Notice from CEO of ARPANSA
Response by Department of Health to Sun Shine on .

Partially successful.

Attention: Sun Shine I refer to your email below of 17 May 2018 to the Department of Health, seeking access to documents under the Freedom of Informa...
Cost of change to breast density reporting policy by BreastScreen Australia
Response by Department of Health to Michael Shephard on .

Information not held.

Attention: Michael Shephard The Department of Health has no record of this request. Please submit your request and the Department will respond to you...
Data tracking delay between referral receipt and elective surgery at public hospitals
Follow up sent to Department of Health by Cail Young on .

Partially successful.

Thank you for the response. The PDF reports are definitely more what I was after, however it is disappointing that they stop at 2016. I will conta...
Request for the QMS of the Standing Committee on Screening.
Response by Department of Health to Michael Shephard on .

Successful.

Dear Mr Shephard,   Thank you for your request to the Department of Health (Department) of 6 April 2018, seeking access under the Freedom of Infor...

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