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13 Jun 2014

Most National Boards are consulting on important standards and guidelines.

Members of the community and health practitioners are invited to provide feedback on a range of important registration standards and guidelines currently in consultation.

Your response to these documents will help revise the standards that registered health practitioners must meet to maintain registration, as well as the guidelines that inform their practice

The core registration standards in consultation include:

professional indemnity insurance (the insurance arrangements practitioners must have in place to practice)
continuing professional development (the ongoing professional development practitioners must undertake every year to remain registered), and
recency of practice (how recently practitioners must have practised in order to be considered safe to continue or go back to practice after a break).

Some profession-specific registration standards, guidelines and frameworks are also in consultation.

Links to the current consultations page for each Board are included in the table below:

National Board	Consultation closing date	Core registration standards in consultation	Other profession-specific documents in consultation
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Practice	16 June 2014	No core registration standards in consultation	Guidelines: Draft Supervision Guidelines for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Practitioners
Chinese Medicine	23 July 2014	No core registration standards in consultation	Guidelines: Draft Guidelines for safe Chinese herbal medicine practice (including Nomenclature list of commonly used Chinese herbal medicines)
Chinese Medicine	31 July 2014	N/A	Draft Supervision guidelines for Chinese medicine practitioners
Chiropractic	30 June 2014	Professional indemnity insurance Continuing professional development Recency of practice	Guidelines: Continuing professional development Assessment of formal learning activities
Dental	14 July 2014	Professional indemnity insurance Continuing professional development Recency of practice Endorsement for conscious sedation Specialist	Guidelines: Continuing professional development
Medical	30 June 2014	Professional indemnity insurance Continuing professional development Recency of practice Draft revised registration standards for the four types of limited registration: Limited registration for postgraduate training or supervised practice Limited registration for area of need Limited registration in public interest Limited registration for teaching or research	Guidelines: Draft guideline: Short-term training in a medical specialty for international medical graduates who are not qualified for general or specialist registration
Medical Radiation Practice	30 June 2014	Professional indemnity insurance Continuing professional development Recency of practice	No profession-specific documents in consultation
Nursing and Midwifery	14 July 2014	Professional indemnity insurance Continuing professional development Recency of practice	Guidelines: Continuing professional development
Nursing and Midwifery	23 June 2014	N/A	draft revised Safety and quality framework for midwives
Optometry	14 July 2014	Professional indemnity insurance Recency of practice	No profession-specific documents in consultation
Osteopathy	30 June 2014	Professional indemnity insurance Continuing professional development Recency of practice	No profession-specific documents in consultation
Pharmacy	30 June 2014	Professional indemnity insurance Continuing professional development Recency of practice Supervised practice arrangements Examinations for eligibility for general registration	Guidelines: Continuing professional development draft Guidelines on compounding of medicines draft Professional practice profile for pharmacists undertaking complex compounding
Physiotherapy	30 June 2014	Professional indemnity insurance Continuing professional development Recency of practice	Guidelines: Continuing professional development Recency of practice
Podiatry	14 July 2014	Professional indemnity insurance Continuing professional development Recency of practice	Guidelines: Continuing professional development Recency of practice Guidelines for infection control
Psychology	30 June 2014	General registration Continuing professional development Recency of practice	Guidelines: Continuing professional development Policy: Recency of practice requirements