Freedom of Information Disclosure Log

ROPD - About Renewal applications

ROPD - About the application for registration process

ROPD - About the application for renewal process

• The number of AHPRA employees currently on stress leave.
• Any record that indicates the number of employees on stress leave over the past five years

1. A document showing how many doctors did not renew their registration for each year 2020, 2021and 2022 (due 30/9/22)

2. A document showing how many total doctors were registered for each year 2020,2021 and 2022(due 30/09/22)

3. A document showing how many doctors have taken their own lives (suicide) for each year 2020,2021 and 2022

4. A document showing how many nurses did not renew their registration for each year 2020, 2021and 2022 (due 30/9/22)

5. A document showing how many nurses were registered for each year 2020, 2021 and 2022 (due30/09/22)

6. A document showing how many paramedics did not renew their registration for each year 2020,2021 and 2022 (due 30/9/22)

7. A document showing how many paramedics were registered for each year 2020, 2021 and 2022(due 30/09/22)

Items 2, 5, 7 –

Medical Board Statistics webpage;

Nursing and Midwifery Board Statistics webpage;

Paramedicine Board Statistics webpage

Notice of Board decision to take action template

Notice of Board decision to take immediate action template

Ahpra chaperone protocol

Documentation concerning:

1. the isolation of the SARS COV-2 Delta strain;
2. the isolated SARS COV-2 Delta virus sample is exposed to healthy humans or animals and shown to cause the disease COVID-19.

The following documents:

1. All emails between Ahpra board members, agency management committee and/or any other members of Ahpra or its affiliates and Brett Simmonds of the Pharmacy Board between 01/02/2021 and 10/03/2021 that referred to, in whole or part, to the statement released on 09/03/2021 titled "Registered health practitioners and students and COVID-19 vaccination - AHPRA position statement”

The following documents:

1. Green Papers & White Papers provided to and/or accessed by Ahpra, including drafts, to detail grounds for caution or call for the need for lockdowns and/or other state-wide restrictions on individuals, businesses and/or corporations, due to alleged State of Emergency on grounds of "Pandemic".
2. Evidence of all scientific reports and studies used in any such Green and White papers.
3. Other key scientific reports that seek to justify Ahpra’s illegal and improper tortious interference in the professional autonomy and business practices of Health Practitioners deemed to be "anti-vaxxers" and acting against the best interests of Australians who will risk adverse events or death against their informed consent.

The following documents:

1. Statistical data between 1 January 2018 to October 2021 pertaining to the length of time it takes a person to gain medical registration after re-applying for registration following cancellation of medical registration.
2. Policy documents which explain the process by which a person may re-register following cancellation of medical registration

The following documents:

1. The number of registered nurses in South Australia in the months of May, June and July 2009.
2. The number of registered nurses in the South Australia in the month of July, August and September 2021.
3. The number of registered nurses in Australia in the month of July, August and September 2021.

1. Nursing and Midwifery Board of South Australia’s Annual Report for 2008-2009
2. Nursing and Midwifery Board of South Australia’s quarterly registrant data report for July-September 2021.

1. Chemical-Management-Policy
2. Clean-Desk-Policy
3. Code-of-Conduct-policy
4. COVID-19-Vaccination-Policy
5. Health, Safety and Wellbeing Policy
6. People-policy
7. Recruitment-and-selection-policy
8. Grievance-Resolution-policy
9. Bullying-harassment-and-discrimination-policy
10. Discipline-policy
11. Unsatisfactory-performance-and-conduct-policy

The following documents:

1. All emails to/from Brett Simmonds from 01/02/2021 to 10/03/2021 containing the words "position statement.
2. All documents confirming the instructions to circulate the Ahpra position statement dated 09/03/2021 on COVID 19 vaccinations.
3. Pharmacy and Medical Board Committee Meeting Minutes that include reference to 09/03/2021 position statement on the Covid 19 Vaccination.

• Internal emails
• Decisions and Actions Papers
• Agenda Papers

• Decisions and Actions Papers
• Agenda Papers

The following documents:

1. A document issued to employees, contractors or agency staff which obliges parties receiving, assessing, investigating or making decisions on notifications concerning health practitioners to comply with people’s human rights while having involvement in administering the National Law.
2. A copy of the 'Unsatisfactory Performance & Conduct Policy" and the "Discipline Policy" as referred to in the Ahpra Code of Conduct.
3. A document issued by AHPRA, the National Board or Psychology Board of Australia, which confirms psychologists are not legally obliged or required to provide letters or information to Centrelink to assist the agency in determining a person’s correct entitlements under Social Security Law.

1. Code of Conduct
2. Unsatisfactory performance and conduct policy
3. Discipline Policy

Partial access provided

Personal information exempted under section 47F of the FOI Act

Documents outlining:

1. Documentation of the AHPRA internal policy regarding the admissibility of audio recordings.

1. AHPRA National Legal Position Paper regarding recording and communicating private conversations

Partial access provided

Personal information exempted under section 47F of the FOI Act

Documents outlining:

1. Policies, guidelines, directives, rules, codes of practice, procedures governing the handling of incoming telephone calls by the AHPRA’s call centre (a.k.a. switchboard operators / enquiry officers).
2. Policies, guidelines, directives, rules, codes of practice, procedures governing the handling of complaints about breaches of the Medical Board of Australia's Code of Conduct for Doctors in Australia.
3. Policies, guidelines, directives, rules, codes of practice, procedures governing the handling of requests under Part III of the Freedom of Information Act 1982.
4. Agreed measures or metrics used to define and evaluate the critical success factors in the delivery of services by the AHPRA’s call centre (a.k.a. switchboard operators / enquiry officers).

1. Policies, protocols, facts sheets, standard operation procedures, and workbooks for the AHPRA National Customer Service Team.
2. Policies, guidelines, protocols, manuals, and information sheets in relation to AHPRA’s management of notifications

Partial access provided.

Items 3 - 4 refused under section 24A.

Documents outlining:

1. Procedures for determining whether an employee in the agency has breached the Code of Conduct in Section 13 of the Public Service Act 1999 (Cth).
2. Policies, guidelines, directives, rules, codes of practice, procedures governing the handling of complaints from members of the public about the conduct of employees that is illegal, unreasonable, unjust or oppressive, improperly discriminatory, based on improper or irrelevant grounds, based on a mistake of law or fact, or otherwise wrong.
3. Policies, guidelines, directives, rules, codes of practice, procedures governing the handling of complaints from members of the public about breaches of the Australian Privacy Principles in Schedule 1 of the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth).

1. AHPRA guide to complaint handling for National Law entities; AHPRA public interest disclosure (whistleblower) policy)
2. AHPRA procedure to respond to a breach of privacy and incident report templates

Full access provided.

Item 1 refused under section 24A of the FOI Act.

Documents outlining:

1. Organisational structure of AHPRA’s National Information Release Unit (NIR Unit).
2. Functions and activities of the NIR Unit.
3. who (within the senior executive) is responsible for leading the work in the NIR Unit.
4. Policies, guidelines, directives, rules, codes of practice, procedures governing the handling of requests under Part III of the FOI Act.

1. AHPRA National Legal Practice organisation chart
2. National Information Release Unit description and overview of work
3. Role descriptors of AHPRA employees currently working within the National Information Release Unit

Full access provided (material irrelevant to the request has been deleted under section 22 of the FOI Act).

Item 4 refused under section 24A of the FOI Act.