National Health Workforce Registration and Accreditation Scheme
Australian Regulatory Compliance Review:
The
Council of Australian Governments (COAG) at its meeting of 26 March
2008 signed an Intergovernmental Agreement on the health workforce.
This
agreement will create a single national registration
and accreditation system for nine health professions: medical
practitioners; nurses and midwives; pharmacists; physiotherapists;
psychologists; osteopaths; chiropractors; optometrists; and dentists
(including dental hygienists, dental prosthetists and dental
therapists).
The new scheme will
maintain a public national register for each health profession that
will ensure that a professional who has been banned from practising in
one place is unable to practise elsewhere in Australia.