Where there are consultations which have closed, they will be shown below along with the individual submissions that were received and considered.
Where there are consultations which are open for input, they will be shown under Current Consultations.
Released: 11 May 2021 Closed: 6 July 2021
Ahpra and the 12 National Boards that share a Code of conduct carried out a public consultation on a revised shared Code. The National Boards invited practitioners, stakeholders and the community to give feedback on the revised Code of conduct.
A consultation paper that included an overview of the review, case studies, high level overviews of the proposed changes to the revised Code and optional questions was made available. Links to the consultation documents are available below.
To help promote safe and effective care the following National Boards share the Code of conduct (the Code) that sets out their expectations of professional behaviour and conduct for registered health practitioners.
The code is reviewed regularly to make sure it continues to reflect the standard of conduct and behaviour expected of registered health practitioners by the National Boards, and so that the public can better understand the expected conduct of practitioners. The revised code aims to be a relevant and useful resource for practitioners, while being more accessible to the public.
Submissions will be published soon.
Released: 11 September 2019 Closed: 17 December 2019
National Boards (excluding psychology and pharmacy) and AHPRA carried out a public consultation on the proposed Supervised practice framework as part of their project to enable a consistent, responsive and risk-based approach to supervised practice across the National Scheme.
Released: 11 September 2019 Closed: 26 November 2019
The National Boards and AHPRA carried out a public consultation on the Guidelines for advertising a regulated health service. The guidelines were developed to explain the advertising requirements in the National Law and to help advertisers (including registered health practitioners) to meet these requirements and advertise responsibly. The review is to make sure the guidelines are as contemporary, relevant and effective as possible.
The 14 National Boards in the National Registration and Accreditation Scheme (the National Scheme) released for public consultation draft guidelines on Mandatory notifications.
Released: 11 September 2019 Closed: 6 November 2019
Released: 13 April 2018 Closed: 25 May 2018
Submissions received are available on the Past Consultations page of the AHPRA website.
National Boards and the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) have completed public consultation as part of a scheduled review of accreditation arrangements from mid-2019, when the current terms of assignment of accreditation functions end.
Released: 17 April 2018 Closed: 14 May 2018
Submissions and a brief consultation report are available on the Past Consultations page of the AHPRA website.
Released: 13 March 2018 Closed: 4 May 2018
Template - Continuing professional development portfolio (61.8 KB,PDF), Word version (370 KB, DOCX).
The six Boards involved in reviewing core registration standards undertook research and benchmarking to inform the development of the revised standards. The Optometry Board of Australia is reviewing its CPD registration standard and related guidelines as part of this multi-profession review. A high level summary of the research and benchmarking, conducted from a regulatory risk perspective for the six Boards, was used to inform the core registration standards (continuing professional development, professional indemnity insurance and recency of practice). The research summary is available to download.
Summary of research to inform registration standards reviews (89.6 KB,PDF), Word version (26.0 KB, DOCX).
The National Board is collating feedback received and will publish it as soon as practical.
Released: 1 February 2017 Closed: 31 March 2017
Released: 25 September 2015 Closed: 20 November 2015
Released: 24 July 2014 Closed: 26 September 2014
Submissions received will be available on the Past Consultations page of the AHPRA website.
Released: 19 May 2014 Closed: 14 July 2014
Released: 25 October 2013 Closed: 23 December 2013
Released: 2 October 2013 Closed: 31 October 2013
Released: 4 April 2013 Closed: 30 May 2013
Released: 23 November 2012 Closed: 4 February 2013
Released: 20 September 2012 Closed: 2 November 2012
Released: 28 August 2012 Closed: 23 October 2012
Released: 25 June 2012 Closed: 17 August 2012
Submissions received can be found here.
Released: 27 March 2012 Closed 18 May 2012
Released: 4 October 2011 Closed: 2 December 2011
Released: 21 September 2011 Closed: 18 November 2011
Released: 5 August 2011 Closed: 3 October 2011
Released: 14 January 2011 Closed: 4 March 2011
Public submissions are available on this website for transparency on our consultations regarding important matters affecting optometrists.
We publish submissions in their original format as made by the submitter. If you have difficulty accessing a submission, please contact AHPRA at webservices@ahpra.gov.au, and we will try to contact the submitter to provide an accessible version of their submission for your reference.
Please note that submitters are asked to provide their submissions to our public consultations in web accessible formats, and we guide them on how this can be achieved. We will update inaccessible submissions on this website when accessible format versions of files become available.