Current consultations

The Accreditation Committee undertakes wide-ranging consultation on accreditation reform and other National Scheme accreditation matters.

Where there are consultations open for input, they will be shown below.

Public consultation – Guidance on developing professional capabilities

Opens: 23 August 2024
Closes: 18 October 2024

The Accreditation Committee (the committee) is seeking feedback on its draft Guidance on developing professional capabilities.

Every profession regulated by the National Registration and Accreditation Scheme (the National Scheme) has a document outlining the knowledge, skills and professional attributes required to practice as a registered health practitioner in that profession in Australia. Some professions call these professional capabilities.

The purpose of this draft guidance on developing professional capabilities is to foster good practice and enhance efficiency and consistency in the development of new or revised professional capabilities across health professions regulated under the National Scheme.

The consultation documents include:

• a quick guide to the draft guidance on developing professional capabilities (180 KB,PDF), word version (145 KB,DOCX)
• the draft guidance on developing professional capabilities (574 KB,PDF), word version (418 KB,DOCX) and
• a response template to provide your feedback (219 KB,PDF), word version (149 KB,DOCX).

Have your say

We welcome feedback from organisations, registered health practitioners and the public.

Submissions can be made using the template provided and emailing to AC_consultation@ahpra.gov.au.

About the Accreditation Committee

The committee was established in 2021, in line with Ministerial Council Policy Direction 2020-1 – Independent Accreditation Committee. The committee gives independent and expert advice on accreditation reform and other National Scheme accreditation matters to National Scheme entities (National Boards, accreditation authorities and Ahpra).

For information on accreditation in the National Scheme see the Ahpra website.

Publication of submissions

The committee publish submissions at their discretion.

The committee generally publish consultation submissions on their websites to encourage discussion and inform the community and stakeholders. We will not place on our website, or make available to the public, submissions that contain offensive or defamatory comments or which are outside the scope of the consultation. Before publication, we may remove personally identifying information from submissions, including contact details.

The committee accept submissions made in confidence. These submissions will not be published on the website or elsewhere. Submissions may be confidential because they include personal experiences or other sensitive information. A request for access to a confidential submission will be determined in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Cth), which has provisions designed to protect personal information and information given in confidence.

Please let us know if you do not want us to publish your submission or want us to treat all or part of it as confidential.

Published submissions will include the names of the individuals and/or the organisations that made them, unless confidentiality is expressly requested.