Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency

rdf:langString Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency

rdf:langString Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency

rdf:langString The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA), infrequently spelt as the Australian Health Practitioners Regulation Agency is a statutory authority founded in 2010 which is responsible, in collaboration with the Medical Board of Australia, for registration and accreditation of health professionals as set out in the Australian legislation called the National Registration and Accreditation Scheme. As of 2018, approximately 586,000 health professionals were registered with the AHPRA, containing 98,400 medical practitioners (which includes general practitioners, medical specialists and some hospital workers), and 334,000 nurses and midwives. This rose to 825,720 registered health professionals in 2021. The AHPRA is intended to facilitate public safety of health practice in Australia, and is used to assess the qualifications of overseas health practitioners. According to the National Registration and Accreditation Scheme, it is required to be registered with the AHPRA to self-identify with one of the "protected titles" set out in the legislation, and it is an offence to do so without registration. The AHPRA maintains a public register of those registered and related qualifications accessible from their website. The AHPRA is responsible for hearing and investigating complaints (which are legally termed "notifications") of "performance, health and conduct" by those registered. The AHPRA is also responsible for hearing complaints about unregistered professions, which includes "unregistered health care workers who provide a health service", in violation of the National Code of Conduct for health care workers by behaving in an incompetent, exploitative, predatory or illegal manner. Martin Fletcher has been the chief executive officer of the AHPRA since its inception. According to a 2011 publication, "Australia is [sic] the first country in the world to have a national registration and accreditation scheme regulating health practitioners."

rdf:langString Martin Fletcher

rdf:langString CEO

rdf:langString Chris Robertson

rdf:langString Executive Director, Strategy and Policy

rdf:langString Kym Ayscough

rdf:langString Executive Director, People and Culture

rdf:langString Clarence Yap

rdf:langString Chief Information Officer

rdf:langString Liz Davenport

rdf:langString Chief Financial Officer