Past Consultations

In News:

Provisional Registration Guideline

Released: 14 February 2013
Closed: 28 March 2013

The Medical Radiation Practice Board of Australia (the National Board) released a consultation paper on a proposed Provisional registration guideline to seek views on the requirements for provisional registration for the purpose of enabling a medical radiation practitioner to undertake a program of supervised practice.

The National Board also released the draft Supervised practice registration standard consultation paper and recommended that this paper was read in conjunction with the consultation paper.

Submissions received

Submissions received for both the Provisional Registration Guideline and Supervised Practice Registration Standard

Supervised Practice Registration Standard

Released: 14 February 2013
Closed: 28 March 2013

The Medical Radiation Practice Board of Australia (the Board) released a consultation paper on a proposed registration standard for Supervised Practice to seek views on the National Board’s requirements for supervised practice.

The National Board recommended the draft Provisional registration guideline consultation paper was read in conjunction with this consultation paper.

Submissions received

Submissions received for both the Provisional Registration Guideline and Supervised Practice Registration Standard

Consultation on Composition of Accreditation Committee

Released: 17 Sept 2012
Closed: 1 October 2012

Following the August 2012 meeting the Board decided to establish an Accreditation Committee to undertake the accreditation functions. This consultation paper sought feedback on options for the composition of the Accreditation Committee.

Please note that your comments will be published on the Board’s website unless you request otherwise.

Consultation Submissions

Consultation paper on international criminal history checks

Released: 25 June 2012
Closed: 17 August 2012

Submissions received can be found here.  

Continuing Professional Development and Recency of Practice Guidelines

The Medical Radiation Practice Board of Australia (the Board) consulted on draft guidelines on Continuing Professional Development and Recency of Practice. 

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

Released: 24 Jan 2012
Closed: 16 March 2012

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

Codes and Guidelines

The Medical Radiation Practice Board of Australia (the Board) released a consultation paper on new proposed codes and guidelines.

This consultation paper has been developed under the requirements of the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law Act (the National Law), as in force in each state and territory. A link to the National Law is available at: www.ahpra.gov.au/Legislation-and-Publications.aspx

The National Law:

  • empowers the Board to develop and approve codes and guidelines to provide guidance to the profession.
  • requires the Board to ensure there is wide-ranging consultation on the content of any proposed code or guideline.

The guidelines for Advertising and Mandatory Notifications, together with the Code of Conduct for Registered Health Practitioners listed below are common across the 10 health professions that are currently regulated under the National Registration and Accreditation Scheme (NRAS) and have been in place since the start of the scheme on 1 July 2010.

Preliminary drafts of the codes and guidelines were subject to extensive public consultation prior to being endorsed by the 10 currently regulated health professions. They have also been tested through their implementation by the 10 currently regulated health professions.

At the completion of the consultation period, the Board will consider all submissions prior to finalising the codes and guidelines for approval.

The consultation paper sought feedback on:

  1. A code of conduct for the profession

    Addressing issues like providing good care, effective communication, confidentiality and privacy, informed consent, adverse events and open disclosure, maintaining professional boundaries, health records, conflicts of interest, and financial and commercial dealings.
  2. Guidelines on mandatory reporting

    These guidelines explain the situations when a health practitioner or their employer must notify the Board through the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) about a registered health practitioner’s misconduct. There are four types of misconduct: intoxication, sexual misconduct, impairment, and significantly departing from accepted professional standards.
  3. Guidelines on Advertising

    This includes what is acceptable advertising, such as factual statements about the services a profession provides. The Guidelines also define what is unacceptable, such as not disclosing risks associated with a treatment. The Guidelines clarify the acceptable use in advertising of titles, warning statements, advertising of price and how to complain about a breach of the Guidelines.

Proposed Codes and Guidelines (388 KB,PDF)

Released: 21 November 2011
Closed: 19 January 2012

Submissions Received

Supervised Practice Registration Standard

The Medical Radiation Practice Board of Australia (the Board) has released a consultation paper on a proposed registration standard for Supervised Practice. The Board is interested in comments from a wide range of stakeholders and invites written submissions.

Supervised Practice (92.0 KB,PDF)

Released: 22 November 2011
Closes: 19 January 2012

Please provide written submissions by email, marked ‟November 2011 Registration Standards‟ to medicalradiationconsultation@ahpra.gov.au by close of business (COB) on 19 January 2012.

The Board will publish all submission on its interim website www.medicalradiationpracticeboard.gov.au to encourage discussion and inform the community and stakeholders, unless requested otherwise.

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.

Submissions Received

Proposed Registration Standards

The Medical Radiation Practice Board of Australia (the Board) released a consultation paper on a proposed registration standards for:

  1. Continuing professional development
  2. Criminal history
  3. English language skills
  4. Professional indemnity insurance
  5. Recency of practice

In addition, the Board also consulted on a draft grandparenting and general registration eligibility registration standard.

The Board received comments from a wide range of stakeholders about the proposed standards and invites written submissions on these draft standards.

Medical Radiation Practice Board of Australia Proposed Registration Standards Consultation Paper (698 KB,PDF)

Released: 30 August 2011
Closed: 7 October 2011

The Board publishes submissions on its website to encourage discussion and inform the community and stakeholders, unless requested otherwise. There may be circumstances under which submissions may not be published. Please refer to the section on submissions in the consultation paper for details of how submissions are treated.

Submissions Received

General submissions

Submissions regarding Continuing Professional Development (CPD)

Submissions regarding English Language Skills (ELS)

Submission regarding Grandparenting