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Report No. 21, 57th Parliament - Health Practitioner Regulation National Law and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2022
Committee's Report
The committee tabled its Report No. 21, 57th Parliament - Health Practitioner Regulation National Law and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2022 on 1 July 2022. The Bill was passed with amendment on 13 October 2022.
View: | Report |
View: | Erratum to Report |
View: | Government response |
View: | Debate on the Bill in Parliament: Transcript 12 October 2022 (pages 2635-2657), Transcript 13 October 2022 (pages 2708-2714) The debate on the Bill can viewed by clicking on the movie icon within the above transcript. |
About the BILL
On 11 May 2022, Hon Yvette D’Ath, Minister for Health and Ambulance Services, introduced the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2022 into the Queensland Parliament. The Bill was referred to the Health and Environment Committee for detailed consideration.
As set out in the explanatory notes, the Bill amends the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (National Law), as agreed by Australian Health Ministers on 18 February 2022.
The Bill implements a range of reforms which aim to update and improve the regulation of Australia’s health professions. The Bill’s main objectives are to:
- strengthen public safety and confidence in the provision of health services;
- improve the governance of the National Scheme; and
- enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of the scheme.
Key reforms in the Bill include:
- refocusing the objectives and guiding principles of the National Law to make public safety and confidence paramount considerations, and to recognise the National Registration and Accreditation Scheme for health professionals’ (National Scheme) role in ensuring the development of a culturally safe and respectful health workforce for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples
- introducing a power for national regulators to issue interim prohibition orders to prohibit or restrict unregistered practitioners from providing health services or using protected titles, similar to the power already given to the Health Ombudsman in Queensland (the Health Ombudsman)
- introducing a power for the Health Ombudsman and national regulators to issue public statements about persons whose conduct poses a serious risk to public health and safety
- removing barriers to information sharing to protect the public and enable more efficient and appropriate resolution of notifications
- improving processes by which National Boards make registration decisions and manage health, conduct and performance issues.
To accommodate Queensland’s co-regulatory arrangements for registered health practitioners, the Bill also amends the Health Ombudsman Act 2013 and makes minor modifications to how certain amendments to the National Law will operate in Queensland.
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View: | Explanatory Notes |
View: | Statement of compatibility |
submissions
Submissions are now closed. The submissions are availabe under the "View Submissions" tab.
PUBLIC BRIEFING AND PUBLIC HEARING
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Timeline
Submissions close: | 5:00pm on Wednesday, 1 June 2022 |
Public Briefing: | Monday, 23 May 2022 - Program - Broadcast - Transcript |
Public Hearing: | Wednesday 8 June 2022 - Program - Broadcast - Transcript |
Report Date: | Friday, 1 July 2022 - Report |
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Related Publications
Publication Details | Type | Published Date | Tabled Date | Committee Name |
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Submissions
- 1 - Confidential
- 2 - Anand Deva
- 3 - Australian Dental Association Queensland
- 4 - Australasian College for Emergency Medicine
- 5 - Speech Pathology Australia
- 6 - Dr Margaret Faux
- 7 - The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
- 8 - Australian Paramedics Association QLD
- 9 - Australian Doctors' Federation
- 10 - Exercise & Sports Science Australia
- 11 - Eucalyptus
- 12 - Queensland Nurses and Midwives' Union
- 13 - Australian Medical Association (AMA)
- 14 - Australasian Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (ASAPS)
- 15 - Australian Association of Psychologists Inc
- 16 - Insurance Council of Australia
- 17 - AMA Queensland
- 18 - Queenslanders with Disability Network Ltd (QDN)
- 19 - The Pharmacy Guild of Australia, Queensland Branch
- 20 - United Workers Union
- 21 - Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (Ahpra)
- 22 - Allied Health Professions Australia
- 23 - Australian Medical Professionals Society and Nursing Professional Association of Australia
- 24 - Australian Lawyers Alliance
- 25 - Doctors' Health in Queensland
- 26 - Operation Redress
- 27 - MIGA
- 28 - Queensland Law Society
- 29 - Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP)
- 30 - Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons
- 31 - Avant Mutual
- 32 - Ray Bange OAM
- 33 - Office of the Health Ombudsman
- 34 - Australian College of Nursing (ACN)
- 35 - Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM)
- 36 - CRANAplus
- 37 - Australian Society of Ophthalmologists
- 38 - Australian Society of Rehabilitation Counsellors Ltd
- 39 - National Health Practitioner Ombudsman
- 40 - Royal Australasian College of Surgeons