A BILL establishing the National Cancer Screening Register has passed through the Senate.
The new legislation allows for the creation of a national electronic infrastructure for the collection, storage, analysis and reporting of cancer screen program data for the National Cervical Screening Program and the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program.
It also authorises the collection, use and disclosure of information for the purposes of the register and creates an offence for the unauthorised disclosure of information as well as mandating reporting of screening information to the register.
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