Category: Health Law
What to do if you receive an AHPRA notification
AHPRA regulates all registered health pracitioners in Australia. When someone lodges a complaint or concern with AHPRA, it’s called a notification. This blog is a guide to the first steps a health practitioner should take if they receive a notification from AHPRA.
Health practitioners’ obligations when advertising professional services
If you are a health professional or run a business that advertises health services, you must not engage in deceptive and misleading conduct. In this blog, we discuss health professionals’ obligations when it comes to advertising their services or therapeutic goods with a focus on the Australian Consumer Law and the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law.
Applying for and obtaining AHPRA registration
To gain registration as a health practitioner in Australia, you must be granted registration by the relevant Board. There are different types of AHPRA registration – general registration, specialist registration, provisional registration, limited registration and non-practising registration.
TGA guidelines for advertising cosmetic injectable treatments
On 7 March 2024, the Therapeutic Goods Administration updated their guidelines on advertising health services; specifically, the advertisement of services that involve therapeutic goods. The updated guidelines were effective immediately.
Health practitioners’ obligations to disclose an impairment to the health regulator
When is it necessary to notify the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency that you or another practitioner is suffering a health impairment? We explore health practitioners’ mandatory reporting obligations to AHPRA, of an impairment and what happens once a disclosure is made.
Health practitioners’ obligations to notify AHPRA of criminal charges
In most cases, health practitioners are required to inform AHPRA if they have been “charged” with a criminal offence, whether or not they are convicted.
What happens when conditions are imposed on a health practitioners’ registration?
Despite a health practitioner’s best efforts, sometimes conditions may still be imposed upon their registration by a Health Practitioner National Board via AHPRA or the Office of the Health Ombudsman in Queensland.
Immediate action against health practitioners
For health practitioners, facing the prospect of having immediate action taken against their professional registration can be one of the most stressful times in a health practitioner’s professional career, and it can be difficult for health practitioners to determine who to turn to for assistance.
AHPRA framework to manage vexatious complaints against health practitioners
The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency is aware that vexatious notifications are made against health practitioners from time to time. To help identify and manage vexatious complaints, AHPRA has developed a framework for use by staff and regulatory decision-makers.
QCAT decision allows nurse to keep her job after romantic relationship with a patient
We recently represented a nurse who has been allowed to keep her registration despite the QCAT finding she engaged in professional misconduct by commencing and continuing a romantic relationship with a patient that she was treating.
Making statements over the phone to AHPRA
This article addresses the dangers of responding to an initial Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) notification and subsequent inquiry, over the phone during the first point of contact.
Nursing and Midwifery Board decision: no suspension of registration after serious criminal charge
Hall Payne recently acted for a member of the Queensland Nurses and Midwives Union who had action proposed to have their registration immediately suspended due to a serious assault charge.