Dalitz and Department of Health

Dalitz and West Moreton District Health Service (Department Of Health)
(1997 S0067, 2 February 1998)

Following consultation with third parties who had provided information to health practitioners to assist in the care of the applicant's late mother, the agency disclosed to the applicant all except one page of the applicant's mother's medical record. 

The one page in issue recorded a conversation between a health professional and a third party (who could not be contacted) about the relationship between, and health of, the mother and the third party.  Applying the principles stated in Summers and Cairns District Health Service (1997) 3 QAR 479, the Information Commissioner decided that the page was exempt matter under s.44(1) of the FOI Act.