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Podiatry Board of Australia
Mrs Catherine Loughry
Appointed as Chair and reappointed as a practitioner member from South Australia
Associate Professor Laurence Foley
Reappointed as a practitioner member from Western Australia
Dr Paul Bennett
Appointed as a practitioner member from Queensland
Mr Mark Gilheany
Reappointed as a practitioner member from Victoria
Dr Paul Tinley
Reappointed as a practitioner member from New South Wales
Ms Annabelle Williams
Appointed as a practitioner member from Tasmania
Mrs Anne-Marie Hunter
Reappointed as a community member
Mr Ebenezer Banful
Reappointed as a community member
Mr Mark Bodycoat
Appointed as a community member
The Podiatry Board of Australia has set a currency period of seven years for knowledge in podiatric therapeutics for the purpose of an endorsement for scheduled medicines.
Call for nominations or expressions of interest for health practitioners and community members to join the Podiatry Board of Australia's List of approved persons for panel appointments
AHPRA launches new searchable list for approved courses
27 Nov 2012
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For the first time Australians now have immediate access to a comprehensive, easily searchable national list of approved programs of study for health practitioners.
Podiatry Board of Australia to hold forum in Adelaide
04 Apr 2013
The Podiatry Board of Australia (the Board) invites South Australian podiatrists to attend a forum in Adelaide in May.
The forum is a great opportunity for local podiatrists and members of the Board to meet and discuss the registration and regulation of podiatrists under the National Law.
Date Thursday 2 May 2013
Time 6.30pm – 8.00pm
Venue University of South Australia (UniSA)
City East Campus
Centenary Building
Room 26, 6th Floor
North Terrace
Adelaide
Media release - National Boards are consulting on a draft social media policy and revised guidelines on advertising and mandatory reporting.
Have your say on how health practitioners are regulated
Public consultation on common guidelines and codes of conduct for all registered health practitioners
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Members of the public have an opportunity to comment on how registered health practitioners are regulated with the release of a consultation paper on common guidelines that apply to all registered health practitioners, and codes of conduct for most professions.
The 14 National Boards in the National Registration and Accreditation Scheme (the National Scheme) have released the paper for public consultation, which proposes:
revisions to the Guidelines for advertising - which provide guidance about the advertising restrictions imposed by the law, including social media, on individuals (including practitioners) and businesses
a Social media policy - to address social media issues, and the legal obligations of practitioners, and
revisions to the Guidelines for mandatory notifications - which provide guidance about the requirements for practitioners to make mandatory notifications under the law.
These documents are common across all 14 Boards in the National Scheme and, once finalised, will apply to all 530,000 registered health practitioners in Australia.
Most Boards are also consulting on a revised Code of conduct (either the code shared by most National Boards, or for some Boards there is a profession-specific code). The Medical Board of Australia and Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia are not consulting on their codes at this stage, but will do so later in the year.
Anyone with an interest in health practitioner regulation, including health practitioners and members of the public, is strongly encouraged to read and respond to the consultation paper.
The National Boards will consider the consultation feedback on the proposed guidelines and codes, before finalising the documents.
The consultation paper is available on the current consultation page of the AHPRA website.
The consultation closes: 30 May 2013
About the National Boards and health practitioner regulation
The objectives of the National Scheme are to protect the public by ensuring that only suitable and qualified practitioners are registered; and to increase the flexibility, responsiveness, sustainability and mobility of the Australian health workforce. The National Boards aim to make sure the public has access to safe and competent services from the regulated professions. They do this through the National Registration and Accreditation Scheme (the National Scheme), supported by the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA). The National Scheme has patient safety at its heart, and all health practitioners have a duty to make the care of their patients their first concern and to practise safely and effectively.
Re: Updates from the Podiatry Board of Australia
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