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.

313 requests

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Events of more than 500 people
Internal review request sent to Department of Health by John Smith on .

Information not held.

Thank you for your efforts. I withdraw the application. Yours sincerely, John Smith
Attention: Shanna Miller The right of access under the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (FOI Act) applies to a ‘document’ of an agency, rather than ‘i...
Dear Ms Teague   Please find attached correspondence in relation to your FOI request to the Department of Health.     Kind regards   Ram...
No placebo in vaccine studies
Response by Department of Health to Phillip Hayes on .

Long overdue.

Dear Mr Hayes   Thank you for your below response.  The TGA is processing your request which relates to the below information and will provide you...
Call My doctor Pty Ltd
Response by Department of Health to Lindsay Stewart on .

Long overdue.

Dear Mr Stewart   Please see the attached correspondence from the Department of Health in regards to your request for waiver of charges for FOI 13...
North Qld PHN
Response by Department of Health to Lindsay Stewart on .

Long overdue.

Dear Mr Stewart   I refer to your request of FOI 1374 to the Department of Health (department) seeking access under the Freedom of Information Act...
Why did funding get cut from voluntary male circumcision
Response by Department of Health to Heath McInerney on .

Waiting clarification.

Attention:  Health McInerney   We refer to your correspondence of 29 October 2019 to the Department of Health (as below).   Section 15 of the...
Stolen Body Parts
Response by Department of Health to P. Dorrington on .

Information not held.

Attention:  P. Dorrington     Your request has been received by the Australian Government Department of Health.   Please see following link...
Influenza Deaths and immunisations
Request to Department of Health by Shanna Miller. Annotated by Richard Caruana on .

Successful.

Ask for documents summarizing which nursing homes in New South Wales had deaths from influenza, pneumonia and /or respiratory disease in 2017, 2018 & 2...
Dear Mr Tregoning   The document to which you seek access is publicly available and can be found at the following link:   [1]https://ndarc.med...
Vaccine schedule
Response by Department of Health to Renee on .

Successful.

Dear Renee   Please find attached correspondence in relation to your Freedom of Information request.   As set out in the attached corresponden...
Thank you very much for responding to my request. Yours sincerely, phuong tran
I have marked the request as "refused". The authority says in the last email that they will treat the request as "withdrawn". I cannot see any legal ba...
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....
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...
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...
Attention: Michael Shephard     Please see attached correspondence in relation to your FOI request to the Department of Health.   Kind regar...
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...
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...
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...
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...

Only requests made using Right to Know are shown. ?