In Australia, Google search results increasingly shape public perception of medical professionals. The piece explains that regulatory bodies such as AHPRA and the Health Care Complaints Commission pub...
AHPRA has begun permanently publishing sexual misconduct findings on practitioners’ public registrations. In the first tranche, 107 registrations were updated, with about 50 of the cases involving doc...
The Australian regulator AHPRA has established an inaugural panel named Organisational Review Group Incidents of distress to conduct a high level organisational review of suicide related incidents inv...
Australian regulator AHPRA says prescribing risks are rising as virtual care outpaces regulation. Acting national director for policy and accreditation, Rachel Griffiths, told delegates at the Informa...
Australia's Commonwealth government has announced a $7.45 million funding package for Victoria to strengthen pelvic pain care in general practice. Part of the money will back Primary Health Networks t...
Independent pharmacy prescribing is at the centre of Victoria's regulatory debate after changes to how pharmacists can prescribe medicines. The discussion is framed as about patient safety and profess...
At the Informa Connect Virtual Care conference in Sydney, Eucalyptus senior legal counsel and head of public policy Lyndon Goddard urged industry self-accreditation for online telehealth to embed nati...
Acting on political direction, the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency will publicly disclose tribunal findings of sexual misconduct on an ongoing basis, even when there is no criminal co...
The Australian College of Nursing has urged the federal government to revise the Medicare Urgent Care Clinic Program Operational Guidance so nurse practitioners can independently lead Medicare urgent...
AHPRA has begun an end-to-end review of its notifications system to guard against misuse and to keep processes human-centric, according to CEO Justin Untersteiner during a March keynote. The effort si...
AHPRA chief executive Justin Untersteiner told the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia National Conference in Melbourne that the regulator expects uncertainty in the coming years. The organisatio...
A Queensland study from the Australian Centre for Health Law Research at Queensland University of Technology examined GP participation in voluntary assisted dying in Queensland. Twelve Queensland-base...
AHPRA released its National Scheme Strategy 2031, a five year plan to prepare for a higher level of notifications as the healthcare landscape changes. The regulator cites three drivers: an ageing work...
Fax machines remain common in Australian general practice, with a plan to phase them out and replace them with improved devices. The NHS in the UK and Australian general practice are described as the...
The health practitioner regulator AHPRA released a five-year plan to 2031, setting out a clear path for reform across the National Scheme. It centres on three strategic themes: effective harm preventi...
AHPRA is delivering a series of webinars to help GPs with every aspect of their registration. Topics include the regulation of students in health professions, how supervision works in practice, and na...
The federal government has begun rolling out a set of incentives for GP registrars this semester. Registrars starting community-based training can access a salary incentive of up to 30,000, paid in in...
The regulator AHPRA responded publicly after media coverage linked to a high‑profile gynaecologist, Simon Gordon. The coverage argued AHPRA failed to act on multiple patient complaints over several ye...
A decade long analysis of AHPRA health impairment notifications published in the Medical Journal of Australia shows non-specialist doctors, including GPs, are more likely to be the subject of health i...
AHPRA is rethinking how it handles notifications and regulator intervention after reports about a high profile gynaecologist, Dr Simon Gordon, and allegations surrounding endometriosis surgery. Gordon...
