Where there are consultations which have closed, they will be shown below along with the individual submissions that were received and considered.
Where there are consultations which are open for input, they will be shown under Current Consultations.
Released: 11 May 2021 Closed: 6 July 2021
Ahpra and the 12 National Boards that share a Code of conduct carried out a public consultation on a revised shared Code. The National Boards invited practitioners, stakeholders and the community to give feedback on the revised Code of conduct.
A consultation paper that included an overview of the review, case studies, high level overviews of the proposed changes to the revised Code and optional questions was made available. Links to the consultation documents are available below.
To help promote safe and effective care the following National Boards share the Code of conduct (the Code) that sets out their expectations of professional behaviour and conduct for registered health practitioners.
The code is reviewed regularly to make sure it continues to reflect the standard of conduct and behaviour expected of registered health practitioners by the National Boards, and so that the public can better understand the expected conduct of practitioners. The revised code aims to be a relevant and useful resource for practitioners, while being more accessible to the public.
Submissions will be published soon.
Released: 11 September 2019 Closed: 17 December 2019
National Boards (excluding psychology and pharmacy) and AHPRA carried out a public consultation on the proposed Supervised practice framework as part of their project to enable a consistent, responsive and risk-based approach to supervised practice across the National Scheme.
Released: 11 September 2019 Closed: 26 November 2019
The National Boards and AHPRA carried out a public consultation on the Guidelines for advertising a regulated health service. The guidelines were developed to explain the advertising requirements in the National Law and to help advertisers (including registered health practitioners) to meet these requirements and advertise responsibly. The review is to make sure the guidelines are as contemporary, relevant and effective as possible.
The 14 National Boards in the National Registration and Accreditation Scheme (the National Scheme) released for public consultation draft guidelines on Mandatory notifications.
Released: 11 September 2019 Closed: 6 November 2019
The Physiotherapy Board of Australia has published a consultation paper on the draft guideline for informing a National Board about where you practise.
Released: 13 April 2018 Closes: 25 May 2018
Public Consultation on a proposed National Board guideline for informing a National Board about where you practice (121 KB,PDF), Word version (594 KB,DOCX)
Submissions received are available on the Past Consultations page of the AHPRA website.
National Boards and the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) have completed public consultation as part of a scheduled review of accreditation arrangements from mid-2019, when the current terms of assignment of accreditation functions end.
Released: 17 April 2018 Closed: 14 May 2018
Submissions and a brief consultation report are available on the Past Consultations page of the AHPRA website.
The Physiotherapy Board of Australia and the Physiotherapy Board of New Zealand released for public consultation draft proposed Binational practice thresholds for physiotherapy (replacing the Australian Standards for Physiotherapy 2006).
Released: 17 November 2014 Closed: 12 January 2015
Submissions received will be published soon.
National Boards released for public consultation draft guidelines on the regulatory management of registered health practitioners and students infected with blood-borne viruses.
Released: 24 July 2014 Closed: 26 September 2014
Submissions received will be available on the Past Consultations page of the AHPRA website.
The Physiotherapy Board of Australia undertook public consultation on a review of the above registration standards and guidelines.
Released: 28 April 2014 Closed: 30 June 2014
Submissions received:
National Boards are undertaking public consultation on a review of the English language skills and Criminal history registration standards.
Released: 25 October 2013 Closed: 23 December 2013
Submissions received can be found on the Past consultations page on the AHPRA website.
All National Boards have undertaken further public consultation on a proposal to refine international criminal history checks.
Released: 2 October 2013 Closed: 31 October 2013
Released: 4 April 2013 Closed: 30 May 2013
The 14 National Boards in the National Registration and Accreditation Scheme (the National Scheme) are consulting on the following proposed guidelines:
Most Boards are also consulting on a revised Code of conduct that is shared by 11 of the 14 National Boards, with some profession-specific modifications for some Boards (marked by an asterisk):
The consultation paper below includes the revised guidelines that all National Boards are consulting on, and the shared Code of conduct that the Board is consulting on.
The Boards with profession specific codes are Psychology Board of Australia, Medical Board of Australia and Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia. Only the Psychology Board is consulting on its code at this time; with Nursing and Midwifery and Medicine consulting separately at a later date.
Please provide feedback by email to guidelinesconsultation@ahpra.gov.au by close of business on Thursday 30 May 2013.
Released: 20 September 2012 Closed: 2 November 2012
Released: 25 June 2012 Closed: 17 August 2012
Submissions received can be found on the AHPRA website.
Closed: 18th November 2011
The consultation paper and submissions can be found on the Australian Physiotherapy Council website.
Released: 4 October 2011 Closed: 2 December 2011
Consultation Paper on Definition of Practice (443 KB,PDF)
Submissions will be displayed in due course.
Released: 1 November 2010 Closed: 29 November 2010
Consultation paper on Physiotherapy Registration Standard Guidelines Limited Registration (291 KB,PDF)
ACT Physiotherapy Board (86.7 KB,PDF) Australian Physiotherapy Association (165 KB,PDF) Australian Physiotherapy Council (51.2 KB,PDF) Council of Physiotherapy Deans Australia & New Zealand (153 KB,PDF) NSW Physiotherapy Board (430 KB,PDF) Physiotherapy Board of New Zealand (70.6 KB,PDF) SA Board of the Physiotherapy Board of Australia (83.4 KB,PDF) University of South Australia submission (42.6 KB,PDF) University of Western Australia (108 KB,PDF) WA Physiotherapy Board (94.0 KB,PDF) Health Workforce Principal Committee Submission (75.1 KB,PDF)
Released: 9 June 2011 Closed: 1 August 2011
Consultation document on Draft Supervision Guidelines (573 KB,PDF)
Please note that your comments will be published on the Board's website unless you request otherwise.
ACT Physiotherapy Board (458 KB,PDF) NSW Health (1.12 MB,PDF) Optometry Board of Australia (547 KB,PDF) SA Board of Physiotherapy (488 KB,PDF) VIVIR Healthcare (585 KB,PDF) Council of Physiotherapy Deans (1.10 MB,PDF)
Consultation on Draft Registration Standard and Guideliens on limited registration for postgraduate training or supervised practice and limited registration in the public interest
ACT Board of the Physiotherapy Board of Australia (459 KB,PDF) Council of Physiotherapy Deans (1.10 MB,PDF) NSW Health (1.13 MB,PDF) Pharmacy Board of Australia (489 KB,PDF) NSW Board of the Physiotherapy Board of Australia (468 KB,PDF) Optometry Board of Australia (547 KB,PDF) Physiotherapy Board of New Zealand (478 KB,PDF) SA Board of the Physiotherapy Board of Australia (488 KB,PDF) University of Tasmania (471 KB,PDF) WA Board of the Physiotherapy Board of Australia (1.49 MB,PDF) VIVIR Healthcare (571 KB,PDF)
Public submissions are available on this website for transparency on our consultations regarding important matters affecting physiotherapists.
We publish submissions in their original format as made by the submitter. If you have difficulty accessing a submission, please contact AHPRA at webservices@ahpra.gov.au, and we will try to contact the submitter to provide an accessible version of their submission for your reference.
Please note that submitters are asked to provide their submissions to our public consultations in web accessible formats, and we guide them on how this can be achieved. We will update inaccessible submissions on this website when accessible format versions of files become available.