National Registration and Accreditation Scheme
The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) at its meeting of 26 March 2008 took a major step towards improving Australia’s health system by signing an Intergovernmental Agreement on the health workforce.
The new system will for the first time create a single national registration and accreditation system for ten health professions: chiropractors; dentists (including dental hygienists, dental prosthetists and dental therapists); medical practitioners; nurses and midwives; optometrists; osteopaths; pharmacists; physiotherapists; podiatrists; and psychologists. The new arrangement will help health professionals move around the country more easily, reduce red tape, provide greater safeguards for the public and promote a more flexible, responsive and sustainable health workforce. For example, the new scheme will maintain a public national register for each health profession that will ensure that a professional who has been banned from practising in one place is unable to practise elsewhere in Australia.
COAG Communique - 26th March 2008 (pdf, 92k)
Intergovernmental Agreement
Registration and accreditation scheme for the health professions (pdf, 123k)
Ministerial Statements
Communique - Design of new National Registration and Accreditation Scheme - 8 May 2009. (pdf, 44k)
Extract from Australian Health Ministers' Conference Communique - 5 March 2009. (pdf, 20k)
Appointments to the Agency Management Committee - 5 March 2009. (pdf, 32k)
Legislation
The Health Practitioner Regulation (Administrative Arrangements) National Law Bill 2008 received Royal Assent on 25 November 2008, giving effect to the new national law.
Exposure draft of Bill B released for consultation - submissions close 17 July 2009
Exposure draft of Health Practitioner Regulation National Law 2009 (Bill B) (pdf, 2.8MB)
Frequently asked questions on Bill B (pdf, 108kb)
Calls for nominations and expressions of interest
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Agency Management Committee of the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency
For information on and statements by the Agency Management Committee, please go to the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency website, www.ahpra.gov.au.
Calls for submissions and submissions received
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Project Update
Project Update, March 2009 (pdf, 40k)
Update On Implementation, December 2008 (pdf, 18k)
Tenders Called
Registration system, 18 March 2009 (pdf, 24k)
Contact information
| Telephone | (02) 6289 1531 |
| Fax | (03) 9092 2093 |
| NRAIP@dhs.vic.gov.au | |
| Postal address |
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| NRAIP PO Box 2089, WODEN ACT 2606 |
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