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In order to facilitate workforce mobility, improve safety and quality, and reduce red tape, COAG has agreed to establish by July 2008 a single national registration scheme for health professionals, beginning with the nine professions currently registered in all jurisdictions.
Now the appendices to this agreement have been made available:
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HEALTH WORKFORCE: NATIONAL PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATION
The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) has agreed that a national professional registration scheme for health practitioners be established by July 2008.
The scheme would apply to the nine occupational groups that are currently subject to statutory registration in all jurisdictions. A national Multilateral Intergovernmental Agreement would underpin the scheme and identify its objectives, governance, scope, and legislative, administrative and financial arrangements. The Intergovernmental Agreement would be finalised by mid‑2007 with ongoing reporting back to Senior Officials prior to the establishment of the scheme. The scheme would be enacted through either incorporation by reference or complementary legislation, with the exact mechanism to be resolved as part of implementation.
The inclusion under the scheme of other health occupations currently registered in a limited number of jurisdictions will be determined during implementation of the scheme through assessment against criteria agreed by a ministerial council comprising Commonwealth, State and Territory Health Ministers, and detailed in the Intergovernmental Agreement. The subsequent inclusion of new professions will also be covered by this process.
COAG has agreed to undertake consultation with stakeholders on its preferred model, a single cross-profession national registration board that would assume ongoing administration for a consolidated national health practitioner registration scheme. The scheme would maintain a presence in each State and Territory, primarily to manage receipt and investigation of complaints/notifications and disciplinary matters regarding registered practitioners. All governments (State, Territory and the Commonwealth) would be involved in governance arrangements, with a primary policy setting, governance and implementation role for the ministerial council comprising Commonwealth, State and Territory Health Ministers, to be detailed in the Intergovernmental Agreement.
In addition, the scheme would facilitate expert input on professional matters for professions covered by the scheme, to be provided through participation on profession-specific committees, panels or such other mechanisms.
Under the preferred model, the scheme would be implemented in parallel with proposed reforms to establish a national accreditation scheme, and would be self‑funding, with estimated establishment costs of up to $12.3 million over four years to be jointly funded by the Commonwealth and the States and Territories.
COAG has further agreed that implementation will be overseen by Senior Officials and undertaken in consultation with relevant stakeholders, with a report back to COAG on the consultation and the implementation approach by the end of 2006.
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HEALTH WORKFORCE: NATIONAL ACCREDITATION
The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) has agreed that, in order to simplify and improve the consistency of accreditation arrangements for education and training of the health professions, a national scheme for the accreditation of health professions’ education and training be established by 1 July 2008.
The scheme would apply to the nine occupational groups that are currently subject to statutory registration in all jurisdictions, with the inclusion of other health occupations to be determined during implementation through assessment against criteria agreed by the ministerial council comprising Commonwealth, State and Territory Health Ministers. A national Multilateral Intergovernmental Agreement would underpin the scheme, setting out its objectives, governance, scope, and legislative, administrative and financial arrangements. The Intergovernmental Agreement will be finalised by mid 2007, with ongoing report back to Senior Officials prior to the establishment of the scheme.
COAG has also agreed to undertake consultation with stakeholders on its preferred model, a single cross-profession national accreditation authority that would be given effect through either a statutory body or a non-statutory corporate body. All governments (Commonwealth, State, Territory) would be involved in governance arrangements, including a primary policy setting, governance and implementation role for a ministerial council comprising Commonwealth, State and Territory Health Ministers, to be detailed in the Intergovernmental Agreement.
COAG has further agreed that the preferred model would facilitate expert input on professional matters for professions covered by the scheme.
The scheme would be implemented in parallel with proposed reforms to establish a national registration scheme, and would be self-funding, with establishment costs of approximately $7.5 million over four years to be jointly funded by the Commonwealth and the States and Territories.
COAG has also agreed that implementation will be overseen by Senior Officials and undertaken in consultation with relevant stakeholders, with a report back to COAG on the consultation and the implementation approach by the end of 2006.
COAG has noted that further work will be undertaken by Health and Education Ministers by July 2007 to clarify the relationship between the proposed national accreditation model and existing arrangements vested in State Education Ministers for accrediting private non-university higher education courses
I wonder if any involved in individual state registration board activities have heard any further updated info on this?
The move to national registration could be an opportunity not to be missed in order to establish distinct branches of specialisation within podiatry in this country - should the profession want this.
I would imaging it is time for the profession, APodC, ACPS, AAPSM and individual state associations to look sharply at this issue, so proper planning can occur before 2008.
Without this, there could be a lost opportunity to have specialist registration along the same way as the typical Dental Acts in each state.
I have heard two views from people who are "in the know". One said Podiatry was to be included. The other said Podiatry was not included initially as the press release said it will start with the nine professions registered in all states - Podiatry is not registered in the Northern Territory (though the Podiatrists there are registered in other states). Both people are in contact with officials at state and federal level, so I guess we have nothing definitive yet :(
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Craig Payne
Department of Podiatry
La Trobe University
Melbourne, Australia http://www.latrobe.edu.au/podiatry
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The views expressed above are those of the author and not that of La Trobe University This is where I am, where are you?
I have heard from reliable sources that moves to national registration are ongoing, and may even come into play soon after the first 9 professions start on this in mid-2008.
I wonder if anyone has heard more on the implications of this yet, particularly with respect to things such as scope, accreditation, drug prescribing, and other issues?
Look forward to any updates from those in the know.
I wonder if anyone has heard more on the implications of this yet, particularly with respect to things such as scope, accreditation, drug prescribing, and other issues?
They are the reasons that July 1 2008 is a very optomistic start date.
They are still attempting to finalise the beuracratic model, so the nuts and bolts will come later, with lobbying from all sides.
It is possible that the 9 professions will become 10, as the Commonwealth is keen to include podiatry, but no firm decsion yet
__________________ Stephen Tucker Eastern Health
Podiatry Manager
I am sure there are lessons to be learned from our colleagues in the UK with their experiences with their National Regualtory Body, HPC. Sometimes small is more sensitive to local issues.
Is there any news on the National Registration Board for Pods in Australia. I am intersted to know what (if any ?) added functions the national board would have ?
Paul Tinley gave us an update at educators conference on Tues.
Podiatry is not included in the original group of 9 as there was no registration in the NT. But as Podiatrists in the NT are registered in other states, we will apparently be a special case and be included after the original 9 have been set up.
Implementation date for the 9 is July 2008.
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Craig Payne
Department of Podiatry
La Trobe University
Melbourne, Australia http://www.latrobe.edu.au/podiatry
__________________________________________________ ___________________________________ God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things - right now I am so far behind, I will never die.
The views expressed above are those of the author and not that of La Trobe University This is where I am, where are you?
The new Labor goverment has endorsed national registration for every health profession including those not perviously registered such as OT and speech therapy. Queensland will be the first state to review the new iniatives and the others will follow.
In preparation and to ease introduction of National Registration the Podiatry Boards of Australia have formed a national council and assessment sub committee to establish common policies.
It is expected the National Podiatry Registration by 2010.
The new Labor goverment has endorsed national registration for every health profession including those not perviously registered such as OT and speech therapy. Queensland will be the first state to review the new iniatives and the others will follow.
In preparation and to ease introduction of National Registration the Podiatry Boards of Australia have formed a national council and assessment sub committee to establish common policies.
It is expected the National Podiatry Registration by 2010.
toeslayer
Cameron
Do you have a link to the source of this info?
LL
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In preparation and to ease introduction of National Registration the Podiatry Boards of Australia have formed a national council and assessment sub committee to establish common policies.
toeslayer
The new council, is an independant body fully owned by the 8 registration Boards from Aust and NZ, and is known as the Australian and New Zealand Podiatry Accreditation Council (ANZPAC). Once the boards have paid their levies and elected delegates, the council will begin the process of developing the process to independantly "assess and accredit podiatruc education programs that provide eligibility for registration as a podiatrist in Australia and New Zealand."
__________________ Stephen Tucker Eastern Health
Podiatry Manager
>will begin the process of developing the process to independantly "assess and accredit podiatruc education programs that provide eligibility for registration as a podiatrist in Australia and New Zealand."
One particular issue which does seem to present at present is the potential in Australia to have an undergraduate education system which is left to the individual univerisites to provide programs which relect parochial interestws with no real awareness of conformmity and feeding into a national grid.
An independent professional body with mandatory powers would act of a useful monitor. Crystal ball gazing, I would foresee the establishment of National Competnecies and a National Curriculum more in keeping with health care needs.
The COAG National Registration and Accreditation agreement was signed yesterday and is attached.
Of interest is a few of the statements:
6.3 The State of Queensland will host the substantive legislation to give effect to the national scheme, which will be subject to the approval of the AHMC. Once approved by the AHMC, the State of Queensland will take the lead in enacting the primary legislation to establish the scheme.
1.32 State and Territory drugs and poisons legislation will, at the discretion of States and Territories, provide a mechanism through which suitably qualified registrants of the nursing and allied health professions may be authorised to possess, administer and prescribe scheduled medicines, with:
(a) responsibility for determining qualification requirements and endorsing qualified individuals residing with the relevant board; and
(b) authorisation for particular professions (or sub-groups within professions) to obtain, possess, use, sell or supply (administer or prescribe) medicines to be granted under State and Territory drugs and poisons legislation.
1.5 In the first instance, partially regulated occupations, except for podiatry, will be assessed for inclusion in the scheme. On March 2007, AHMC noted that Aboriginal Health Workers will be given further consideration as a priority in this work. Following this, any proposals for the inclusion of unregulated health occupations in the national registration scheme will be assessed.
1.6 It has been decided that podiatry is a special case, and accordingly it will automatically be included in the national registration scheme as soon as practicable post-1 July 2010. This is warranted because the only jurisdiction in which podiatrists are not registered is the Northern Territory, and the only reason that they have not been regulated is because there are insufficient numbers of podiatrists in the Northern Territory to make registration viable. In any case, all of the podiatrists practising in the Northern Territory are registered in other jurisdictions.
Lots to chew over....
LL
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