Records and compliance

Retention periods, privacy obligations and breach response for Australian dental practices, with the sections cited so you can check them.

How long you must keep a patient record in Australia

Two clocks run on every dental record, and the longer one wins. Getting it wrong in one direction is a privacy breach; in the other, you have destroyed a record you were required to produce.

8 September 20263 min read

Records and compliance

A patient list left in a car park: what the 30 days actually mean

Most practices know they have to report a serious data breach. Far fewer know that a suspicion starts a 30-day statutory assessment clock, or what is supposed to happen inside it.

24 August 20264 min read