DHB - Appointments - application form

District Health Board Appointments
Application Form

An online application form is available for those people who wish to apply for an appointed member position on a DHB board: go to the application form (link opens in new window).

Privacy Policy

Your application is treated in accordance with the Privacy Act 1993. Our privacy policy for information provided for the purposes of appointment is as follows:

1. The Ministry of Health uses the information collected on this form to ensure compliance with relevant legislation (eg, the NZPHD Act and the CE Act) and to advise the Minister of Health on DHB member appointments.

2. For questions regarding this privacy policy, please contact the Manager – Governance, DHB Funding & Performance, Ministry of Health, PO Box 5013, Wellington (phone: (04) 496 2275; fax: (04) 496 2100).

Storage and security of personal information

3. The Ministry of Health and the Office of the Minister of Health (the agencies) will ensure that:

(a) the personal information the agencies hold on you shall be protected by such security safeguards as it is reasonable in the circumstances to take, against:

(i) loss, and

(ii) access, use, modification or disclosure, except with the authority of the agencies, and

(iii) other misuse, and

(b) if it is necessary for the information to be given to a person in connection with the provision of a service to the agencies, everything reasonably within the power of the agencies is done to prevent unauthorised use or unauthorised disclosure of the information, and

(c) if the agencies are required by law to disclose any personal information about you, the agencies will do everything reasonably within their power to consult you before making such disclosure.(

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Access to personal information

4. Where the agencies hold personal information in such a way that it can readily be retrieved, you are entitled:

(a) to obtain from the agency in question confirmation of whether or not the agency holds such personal information, and

(b) to have access to that information.

5. Where, in accordance with the above clause, you are given access to personal information, you will be advised that you may request the correction of that information.

6. The agencies will not hold your personal information longer than is required for the purposes for which the information may lawfully be used.

Footnotes:

The Ministry will usually refuse requests to release personal information about board members or candidates (see the grounds for refusal set out in section 9 of the Official Information Act 1982).

Page last updated: June 2005.