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Where there are consultations which have closed, they will be shown below along with the individual submissions that were received and considered.
Where there are consultations which are open for input, they will be shown under Current Consultations.
Released: 14 December 2022 Closed: 14 February 2023
National Boards and Ahpra are reviewing the current accreditation arrangements for the national health practitioner regulatory scheme to prepare for the next period to mid-2029.
The current accreditation arrangements end on 30 June 2024 for all professions except paramedicine, which end on 30 November 2023. The National Boards and Ahpra intend to complete this scheduled review by May 2023 to inform National Boards’ decisions on arrangements for the next period and provide certainty for the future. The last scheduled review and public consultation on accreditation arrangements was in 2018.
This consultation is a key stage of the review and aims to confirm performance and progress on current accreditation priorities and will inform the priorities for the next period, including how progress in priority areas could be measured.
Released: 11 May 2021 Closed: 6 July 2021
Ahpra and the 12 National Boards that share a Code of conduct carried out a public consultation on a revised shared Code. The National Boards invited practitioners, stakeholders and the community to give feedback on the revised Code of conduct.
Consultation documents, the Patient and Consumer Health and Safety Impact Assessment and submissions received are available on the Past Consultations page of the Ahpra website.
Released: 11 September 2019 Closed: 17 December 2019
National Boards (excluding psychology and pharmacy) and Ahpra carried out a public consultation on the proposed Supervised practice framework as part of their project to enable a consistent, responsive and risk-based approach to supervised practice across the National Scheme.
Consultation documents and submissions received are available on the Past Consultations page of the Ahpra website.
Released: 11 September 2019 Closed: 26 November 2019
The National Boards and Ahpra carried out a public consultation on the Guidelines for advertising a regulated health service. The guidelines were developed to explain the advertising requirements in the National Law and to help advertisers (including registered health practitioners) to meet these requirements and advertise responsibly. The review is to make sure the guidelines are as contemporary, relevant and effective as possible.
The 15 National Boards in the National Registration and Accreditation Scheme (the National Scheme) released for public consultation draft guidelines on Mandatory notifications.
Released: 11 September 2019 Closed: 6 November 2019
National Boards and the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) have completed public consultation as part of a scheduled review of accreditation arrangements from mid-2019, when the current terms of assignment of accreditation functions end.
Released: 17 April 2018 Closed: 14 May 2018
Submissions and a brief consultation report are available on the Past Consultations page of the AHPRA website.
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Practice Board of Australia has published a consultation paper on the draft guideline for informing a National Board about where you practise.
Released: 13 April 2018 Closed: 25 May 2018
Submissions received are available on the Past Consultations page of the AHPRA website.
Released: 13 March 2018 Closed: 4 May 2018
Consultation paper - Proposing changes to the rules for being a registered Aboriginal and or Torres Strait Islander Health Practitioner (828 KB,PDF), Word version (179 KB, DOCX).
Released: 24 July 2014 Closed: 26 September 2014
Submissions received will be available on the Past Consultations page of the AHPRA website.
Released: 30 May 2014 Closed: 16 June 2014
Four submissions were received and each submitter requested that their submission not be published.
Released: 25 October 2013 Closed: 23 December 2013
Released: 2 October 2013 Closed: 31 October 2013
Released: 30 July 2013 Closed: 6 September 2013
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Practice Accreditation Committee conducted a public consultation on draft accreditation standards for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Practice programs of study and the education providers offering them.
See the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Practice Accreditation Committee page for more details.
Released: 4 April 2013 Closed: 30 May 2013
Which Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary health care worker roles should be regulated based on an assessment of risk to the public?
What qualifications should be regarded as the appropriate educational preparation for the registration of these practitioners?
Released: 15 January 2013 Closed: 22 February 2013
Released: 25 June 2012 Closed: 17 August 2012
Released: 27 January 2012 Closed: 15 March 2012
Released: 27 January 2012 Closed: 1 March 2012
Released: 22 November 2011 Closed: 9 January 2012
Released: 5 September 2011 Closed: 10 October 2011
Public submissions are available on this website for transparency on our consultations regarding important matters affecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health practitioners.
We publish submissions in their original format as made by the submitter. If you have difficulty accessing a submission, please contact AHPRA at webservices@ahpra.gov.au, and we will try to contact the submitter to provide an accessible version of their submission for your reference.
Please note that submitters are asked to provide their submissions to our public consultations in web accessible formats, and we guide them on how this can be achieved. We will update inaccessible submissions on this website when accessible format versions of files become available.