National Boards and Ahpra announce fees for 2025/26

18 Sep 2025

National Boards and the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (Ahpra) have announced annual registration fees for 2025/26.

Ahpra CEO Justin Untersteiner said the National Boards and Ahpra have been mindful of cost-of-living pressures in the community, while also ensuring the National Scheme can continue to perform its vital public protection functions.

‘Registration fees fund our work to keep the public safe,’ Mr Untersteiner said.

‘In setting fees, we’ve kept them as low as possible without compromising service quality or our ability to protect the public.’

Registration fees fund the work of the National Boards and Ahpra to keep the public safe by:

• managing applications for registration, including for some boards managing complex applications from internationally qualified practitioners
• developing professional standards that guide the professions and set expectations
• investigating and managing concerns about registered health practitioners, including taking immediate action and referring matters to tribunals
• criminal prosecutions for breaches in advertising and use of title
• accrediting or approving programs of study that lead to registration and endorsement
• contributing funding to the work of the Health Ombudsman in Queensland and funding the National Health Practitioner Ombudsman.

The National Boards and Ahpra have also this year introduced a 30 per cent rebate on annual renewal fees for practitioners who have recently taken an extended period of parental leave, or certain other forms of leave such as disability and carer’s leave.

‘This is the first step in a range of measures to make fee arrangements fairer and more flexible,’ Mr Untersteiner said.

Recommendations from a wider review into pro-rata fees are expected in November with approved changes to come into effect from 1 July 2026.

National registration fees for 2025/26 (excluding NSW)

Funding of the National Scheme

The National Scheme is self-funded with each Board responsible for meeting the full costs of regulating their profession. The fees for each National Board reflect the risk and complexity of the individual professions, as well as the resources needed to address them.

Ahpra does not receive ongoing government funding, however in 2025/26, Ahpra and National Boards received funding from governments to implement reforms arising from the Independent review of Australia’s regulatory settings relating to overseas health practitioners, led by Ms Robyn Kruk AO.

Variation in fees payable by NSW-based practitioners

In NSW, notifications (complaints) about registered health practitioners are managed by the NSW Health Care Complaints Commission and the NSW Health Professional Councils and not by Ahpra. The registration fee for health practitioners whose principal place of practice (PPP) is NSW reflects this difference.

The fees schedule for each profession is published on National Board websites. Any variation to the fees payable by NSW-based practitioners is announced by each NSW Health Professional Council and detailed in the published fee schedules on National Board websites.

Find out more about:

• fee relief for parental and other types of leave
• consideration of financial hardship
• the fee setting process including how National Board’s apply indexation.