Sticking Up for Victoria? - Victoria’s Legislative Council Inquires into the Performance of the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency
(2015) 40, 3 Monash University Law Review 890
31 Pages Posted: 28 Jul 2015 Last revised: 11 Nov 2015
Date Written: July 22, 2015
Abstract
This article analyses the report of the Victorian Legislative Council’s Legal and Social Issues Legislation Committee (‘Committee’) from its Inquiry into the Performance of the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA). AHPRA is a national body that provides administrative support for the National Registration and Accreditation Scheme (NRAS), under which practitioners in 14 health professions across Australia are regulated. The article considers the Committee’s findings and recommendations in light of the impetuses for the creation of the NRAS, as well as the structure and implementation of the NRAS and AHPRA. It is argued that that the value of the Committee’s report is confined to its identification of important issues concerning the NRAS and AHPRA that, in the near future, will require a more critical and comprehensive investigation than the Committee undertook.
Keywords: Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency
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