Highlights

ANNUAL REPORT 2024/25 Highlights

Closing in on
1 MILLION
registered health practitioners

icon health cross 959,838
registered health practitioners

icon of an arrow pointing up 4.3%
Increase of 4.3% registration

icon document profile 96.9%
hold practising on last year

3.5
registered health practitioners for every 100 Australians

3.5%
more renewals than last year

870,569
practitioners renewed their registration

5.1%
more health practitioners in all professions who identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander

69,880
first-time registrants

43,177
domestic
(including new graduates)

26,703
international

181,328
students
More than 820 approved programs of study delivered by more than 130 education providers

1,000+
students
More than 1,000 registered Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Practitioners

Most health practitioners practise safely

22,658

notifications made about 16,209 practitioners nationally

icon alarm bell 1.7%
of all registered health practitioners received a notification

The most common concern was clinical care

8,000+
calls to our notifications hotline

485
calls related to cosmetic surgery

474
criminal complaints received

13%
fewer than last year

Matters involving 190 practitioners (relating to 219 notifications) closed after referral to a tribunal

A public statement naming a suspended practitioner in the interests of public safety was issued for the first time ever in June

1.4%
of closed notifications resulted in the practitioner losing their registration or being disqualified from applying for registration

4,478 cases involving 4,475 practitioners monitored by Ahpra at 30 June

26.7% were about conduct, health or performance

775
complaints assessed about advertising of regulated health services

9 Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people were appointed to Boards and committees, bringing the current total to
45

7 Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander staff members were hired at Ahpra, bringing the total to
30