Consultations

What are consultations?

Ahpra and the National Boards carry out wide-ranging consultation on proposals that affect the professions.

From time to time, they release consultation papers, asking stakeholders to provide input that will help shape registration standards, codes and guidelines, and policies.

Where there are consultations which have closed, they will be shown under Past Consultations, along with the submissions that were received.

For information about our consultation process, visit the Procedures page. 

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Practice Board of Australia 
• Chinese Medicine Board of Australia 
• Chiropractic Board of Australia 
• Dental Board of Australia 
• Medical Board of Australia 
• Medical Radiation Practice Board of Australia 
• Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia 
• Occupational Therapy Board of Australia 
• Optometry Board of Australia 
• Osteopathy Board of Australia
• Paramedicine Board of Australia 
• Pharmacy Board of Australia 
• Physiotherapy Board of Australia 
• Podiatry Board of Australia 
• Psychology Board of Australia

The independently-chaired Accreditation Committee undertakes consultation on accreditation reform and other National Scheme accreditation matters. Please see the link here to the Current consultations section for the Accreditation Committee. 

 Current consultations

Public consultation on the review of the Supervised practice framework

Released: 2 June 2025
Closes: 31 July 2025

The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (Ahpra) and relevant National Boards invite stakeholders to have their say on the review of the Supervised practice framework (the framework).

We want to make working in Australia simpler, quicker and cheaper for internationally qualified health practitioners where this can be done safely. Reviewing the framework is one of the recommendations from the Independent review of Australia’s regulatory settings relating to overseas health practitioners, led by Ms Robyn Kruk AO (the Kruk review).

Before we make any changes to the framework, we are seeking feedback on what improvements could be made.

Consultation paper

• Consultation on the review of the Supervised practice framework (399 KB,PDF), Word version (234 KB,DOCX)

• Response template (Attachment A) (80.4 KB,PDF), Word version (67.7 KB,DOCX)

• Quick guide to the Supervised practice framework consultation (Attachment B) (59.2 KB), Word version (67.7 KB,DOCX)

Making a submission

You can provide your feedback using our online form.
Or, you can provide feedback using the response template (Word or PDF form) and emailing it to us at KrukSPELS@ahpra.gov.au.

Publication of submissions

Submissions to this consultation may be published to Ahpra’s website. There may be circumstances under which submissions may not be published. Published submissions will include the names of the individuals and/or the organisations that made them, unless confidentiality is requested.