Restriction: Attend program of treatment

Please contact your case officer for more information. 

For general information see our Frequently asked questions about Monitoring and compliance page

If you have not yet received contact details for your case officer, please email your enquiry.

We are here to support and guide you through your compliance. 

The contact details for your case officer are included on all our correspondence with you.

We also encourage you to use independent support services, including those provided on our Practitioner support services page.

You can also contact your legal representative or professional union to support you.

• You should contact your Ahpra case officer as soon as possible. 
• You should consider whether your health condition could impact on your safe practise of your profession. 
• Your treating practitioner may be able to help you decide whether it is appropriate to stop practising for a period to recover.
• We will consider your individual circumstances including the nature and severity of the relapse, your practice setting, and the history of your health condition when making a decision.
• Further regulatory action is less likely to be required for practitioners who seek appropriate treatment for their health condition and stop practising when necessary.

If you have no approved practice locations published to the Register of practitioners, you must not practise. 

You must only practise at approved and published practice locations.

Generally, we will provide you further opportunity to nominate a different practice location, or to address any shortfalls in the nomination. 

We will not consider incomplete nominations. We will let you know if we require any further information to progress your nomination. 

If your practice location is not approved and published to the Register of practitioners, you must not practice at that location.

• You must notify your case officer in writing within 14 calendar days of the date that you stop practising at an approved practice location. Please contact your case officer or team via the contact details on your monitoring plan. We will remove your practice location from the Register of practitioners once notified.
• If you have no other practice locations published, you must not recommence practising until you have had a new practice location approved.

You should notify your case officer as soon as possible using the contact details on your monitoring plan. You are required and must advise Ahpra within 3 calendar days of the change, and must complete and return a new treating practitioner nomination within 30 calendar days of becoming aware that your current treating practitioner is unavailable.

The requirement to seek approval of a practice location, for the purpose of these restrictions, is intended to allow for closer scrutiny of the practice setting compared to other forms of action (such as, but not limited to, supervised practice). This helps to confirm if your practice location is suitable, can help you comply with your restrictions, and provide us with independent information so we can confirm you are practising safely.

In considering the appropriateness of a practice location for a practitioner subject to these restrictions, significant weight is placed on the presence of independent persons such as the senior person with whom Ahpra can communicate and seek assurances from regarding the practitioner’s compliance. 

Senior persons play an important role in protecting the public. Sometimes they are not a registered health practitioner. They are responsible for providing us with accurate practice information and are our primary contact to confirm you are practising safely. 

It is important your senior person is sufficiently independent from you to be reasonably relied upon and is able to provide independent and reliable information to help us monitor your compliance with your restrictions.

You should notify your case officer as soon as possible using the contact details on your monitoring plan. You are required to notify Ahpra within 14 calendar days of becoming aware that your nominated senior person is no longer available. You should nominate a new senior person and complete the relevant forms when notifying Ahpra of this change.

You must contact your Ahpra case officer or team as soon as possible if you have had a change of circumstances or are unable to comply with the requirements for any reason. See your monitoring plan for contact information.

You may be able to apply for a change in your restrictions, or an extension of the date of commencement of the requirement for treatment. Circumstances are considered on a case-by-case basis.