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Consultations

What are consultations?

Ahpra and the National Boards carry out wide-ranging consultation on proposals that affect the professions.

From time to time, they release consultation papers, asking stakeholders to provide input that will help shape registration standards, codes and guidelines, and policies.

Where there are consultations which have closed, they will be shown under Past Consultations, along with the submissions that were received.

For information about our consultation process, visit the Procedures page. 

 Listed below are links to the 'Current consultations' sections of each profession:

The independently-chaired Accreditation Committee undertakes consultation on accreditation reform and other National Scheme accreditation matters. Please see the link here to the Current consultations section for the Accreditation Committee. 

 Current consultations

Review of the National Prescribing Competencies Framework

The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (Ahpra) has been contracted by the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care (the Department) to conduct a review of the National Prescribing Competencies Framework (the framework) and invites your feedback.  

The framework describes the competencies for appropriate, safe and effective prescribing across relevant health professions. It aims to create a shared understanding of the person-centred prescribing process. 

More information about the framework and its review.

While the content of the framework generally continues to describe competencies required to contribute to safe and person-centred prescribing, some minor updates have been proposed to ensure that the framework is contemporary and reflects current and emerging trends in education and multi-profession practices. It is important that the framework remains up-to-date and supports best health outcomes within a fast-evolving health environment.

Ahpra has also published a shorter version of the consultation document (see below) to encourage public feedback.

Have your say 

Please provide your feedback using:  

Supporting materials

Resources for the public 

Register for information sessions for:

Consultation closes Friday 30 May 2025.  

Publication of submissions  

We publish submissions at our discretion. We generally publish submissions to our website to encourage discussion and inform the community and stakeholders about consultation responses. Please let us know if you do not want your submission published.  

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 subject of the consultation. Before publication, we may remove personally identifying information from submissions, including contact details.  

We can 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 if you want us to treat all or part of it as confidential.  

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

 
 
Page reviewed 31/03/2025
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