Consultations

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The Board will undertake wide-ranging consultation on proposals that affect the profession.

Links to consultation documents will be provided as they are developed.

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

Continuing Professional Development and Recency of Practice Guidelines

The Medical Radiation Practice Board of Australia (the Board) would like to have guidelines on Continuing Professional Development and Recency of Practice from 1 July 2012 and is consulting on its drafts.

These draft guidelines have been developed under the requirements of the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law Act (the National Law), as in force in each state and territory. Under the National Law, the Board is empowered to develop and approve codes and guidelines, which are designed to provide guidance to the profession. The National Law requires the Board to ensure that there is wide-ranging consultation on the content of any proposed code or guideline. The National Law is available at www.ahpra.gov.au/Legislation-and-Publications.aspx

The Board is keen to receive your feedback during the consultation phase and will consider all submissions before finalising the guidelines. Feedback would be particularly welcome on the clarity and usefulness of the two guidelines:

Draft Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Guideline (121 KB,PDF)

Requirements that must be met by practitioners when undertaking CPD for the purpose of meeting the Board’s minimum annual CPD requirements for renewal of registration in the categories of general, provisional or limited registration. The guideline details information that must be recorded by practitioners when undertaking CPD to ensure that they can complete a declaration of compliance when submitting a renewal of registration application, and to ensure that satisfactory records of CPD undertaken are maintained and available to be submitted to the Board during its annual CPD audit.

Submissions received

 

Draft Recency of Practice (RoP) Guideline (375 KB,PDF)

The RoP standard requires practitioners to ensure that they are competent and fit to practise in the profession through the making of an annual declaration that their practice is current and in keeping with contemporary practice.
The standard also identifies the amount of time a practitioner may spend away from clinical practice before the fitness and competence to practice needs to be considered by the Board.

Submissions received

Making a submission

The Board now invites comment on the proposed guidelines.

Electronic submissions are preferred and can be made by email, marked “CPD and/or RoP Guidelines” to medicalradiationconsultation@ahpra.gov.au by close of business on Friday 16 March 2012.

Submissions by post should be addressed to the Executive Officer, Medical Radiation Practice Board of Australia, AHPRA, GPO Box 9958, Melbourne, 3001.

The Board will publish the submissions on its website to encourage discussion and inform the community and stakeholders (www.medicalradiationpracticeboard.gov.au)

We will not place on our website, or make available to the public, submissions that contain offensive or defamatory comments or which are outside the scope of the reference. Before publication, we may remove personally identifying information from submissions.

The views expressed in the submissions are those of the individuals or organisations who submit them and their publication does not imply any acceptance of, or agreement with, these views by the Board.

The Board also accepts submissions made in confidence. These submissions will not be published on the website or elsewhere. Submissions may be confidential because they include personal or other sensitive information. Any request for access to a confidential submission will be determined in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Cth), which has provisions designed to protect personal information and information given in confidence.

Please let us know if you do not want us to publish your submission, or want us to treat all or part of it as confidential.