Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency - What we do
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What we do

Ahpra works in partnership with 15 National Boards to ensure the community has access to a safe health workforce across all professions registered under the National Registration and Accreditation Scheme. Public safety is always our number one priority. Every decision we make is guided by the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (the National Law), as in force in each state and territory.

The National Registration and Accreditation Scheme

This infographic shows the objectives of the National Registration and Accreditation Scheme (the National Scheme) and actions that support them.

National Registration and Accreditation Scheme

 

Who's who in the National Scheme

Who is who in the National Scheme - October 2022

What we do

Ahpra has five core regulatory functions:

Professional standards

We provide policy advice to the National Boards about registration standards, codes and guidelines for health practitioners.

Registration

In partnership with the National Boards, we ensure that only health practitioners with the skills and qualifications to provide competent and ethical care are registered to practise. We also manage registration and renewal processes for local and overseas qualified health practitioners and manage student registration.

Notifications

We manage complaints and concerns raised about the health, performance and conduct of individual health practitioners on behalf of the National Boards, except in New South Wales and in Queensland we only manage those notifications referred to us. We work with health complaints entities (HCEs) to make sure the appropriate organisation deals with the community’s concerns about health practitioners.

Compliance

We monitor and audit registered health practitioners to make sure they are complying with Board requirements.

Accreditation

We work with accreditation authorities and committees to ensure graduating students are suitably qualified and skilled to apply to register as a health practitioner.

We publish a national Register of practitioners so that important information about individual health practitioners is available to the public.

Health profession agreements with National Boards

Each National Board has entered into a health profession agreement with Ahpra which sets out the fees payable by health practitioners, the annual budget of the Board and the services provided by Ahpra.

Further information

See Who we are for more information about Ahpra. 

The regulatory principles underpin the work of the National Boards and Ahpra in regulating Australia’s health practitioners in the public interest.

See also the annual report for more information about our work.

 
 
Page reviewed 29/05/2023