Terms and Conditions

Welcome to the NAPS website. The use of this website is subject to the following terms and conditions:

• We (Melbourne Health) retain ownership for the NAPS materials which includes, but is not limited to, the design, layout, look, appearance and graphics of the website and data collection materials and website functionality. These are not to be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written consent of the NAPS Coordinating Team.

• Individual health care facilities retain ownership of their own data and it is their responsibility to ensure the accuracy of their own entered data. We take no responsibility for incorrect, duplicated or deleted entries

• The content of the pages of the website is for your general information and use only, and is subject to change without notice.

• Your use of any information or materials on this website is entirely at your own risk. Under no circumstances will we be liable to the user in contract or in tort (including negligence) or otherwise, for any loss or damage (including professional and public indemnity, indirect or consequential loss or damage), howsoever caused, which may be suffered or incurred or which may arise directly or indirectly out of or in connection with this Software whether or not such loss or damage was foreseeable or contemplated by any party. This limitation expressly includes liability for direct or indirect personal injury, including sickness and death; liability for loss of, or damage to, tangible property; and liability in respect of any third party claims.

• This website may contain hypertext links or other references to other parties and their websites which are not under our control and we take no responsibility for these content.

Privacy

All personal or patient specific information that you provide will be protected at all times and will not be used or provided to any external body or third party without your prior consent and is collected solely for the purpose of reporting and the provision of services. Institutional demographic information may be provided to jurisdictional liaison committees within that jurisdiction upon request however no personal or patient specific information will be provided. Facilities outside of the jurisdiction will not be identified.

De-identified pooled data will be used for general reports and publications, de-identified institutional data may be used for benchmarking purposes with like facilities, but only with prior consent. All generated reports to third parties or for publication will only use de-identified information to person and facility.

Currently the data is being collected as part of a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) research grant and will be protected and utilised under the ethics and requirements of this grant. Ethics for the project has been granted as a Quality Assurance/Negligible Risk research study by Melbourne Health’s, Health Research and Ethics Committee: project number QA2013059. The data is stored on the Melbourne Health server, which is data protected.