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POLITICS will have another registered doctor — at least until the September election — after the Medical Board of Australia approved a specialist registration application from shadow parliamentary secretary for regional health Dr Andrew Laming.
THE AMA has called for the Medical Board of Australia (MBA) to have a more active role in the way other health practitioner boards set standards for their registrants, warning the current approach risks siloing care and compromising clinical standards.
THE AMA has called for the Medical Board of Australia (MBA) to have a more active role in the way other health practitioner boards set standards for their registrants, warning the current approach risks siloing care and compromising clinical standards.
QUEENSLAND'S government wants to sack the entire state board of the Medical Board of Australia (MBA).
QUEENSLAND'S government wants to sack the entire state board of the Medical Board of Australia (MBA).
THOUSANDS of international medical graduates (IMGs) would no longer face limited registration and largely skip the administrative hurdle of dealing with the Australian Medical Council (AMC) under a systemic overhaul proposed by the Medical Board of Australia.
AUSTRALIA may have up to 400 GPs currently practising below an acceptable standard and going undetected, a senior New Zealand heath academic warned last week.
THE Medical Board of Australia (MBA) may target older doctors among groups deemed high risk as part of its proposed rolling revalidation scheme, MBA chair Dr Joanna Flynn said last week.
DOCTORS have welcomed the Medical Board of Australia’s (MBA) move to fund external health services, but called for greater assurance about whether it would fund existing or new services and whether that would result in mandatory reporting.
THE Medical Board of Australia (MBA) has announced it will fund health programs especially for doctors, responding to demands it should take a more proactive approach to ensure practitioners are in prime shape to treat patients.
THE Medical Board of Australia (MBA) says it will “consider the implications”, after a GP who congratulated a patient for refusing to vaccinate her child avoided disciplining by a tribunal - despite the MBA’s push for a finding of incompetency.
THE chief health profession’s regulator has moved to reassure GPs about plans to introduce staged revalidation, suggesting that although continuing professional development (CPD) may need improvement, any significant changes are years away.
A DOCTOR who had sex with a friend after the friend had become a patient was spared a professional misconduct ruling after impressing the medical board as “committed” and “contrite”, AHPRA has revealed.
EUTHANASIA advocate and GP Dr Philip Nitschke has questioned the transparency of AHPRA’s investigations after he waited 13 months to receive a follow-up letter confirming that the regulator was still looking into his activities.
THE British Medical Association (BMA) has weighed into the Australian revalidation debate, warning the scheme would not make “better doctors” and could unfairly target locums.
PERTH cardiologist and former AMA president Dr Keith Woollard has reportedly launched an appeal against a careless conduct finding over surgery he conducted at the Mount Hospital in 2006.
DOCTORS across the country could be subject to regular checks to show they are up to date and fit to practise medicine, after the Medical Board of Australia flagged the prospect at its latest board meeting.
WITH just over a month left before the January launch of a training program for international medical graduates, the government has yet to unveil any more detail about the scheme.
AHPRA is closely monitoring health practitioners in Queensland, the Northern Territory and the ACT after the regions delivered a dramatic spike in mandatory notifications last year, it emerged yesterday.
MEDICAL defence organisations (MDOs) have complained that mandatory reporting laws covering doctors treating colleagues remain unclear, while the Medical Board of Australia has moved to reassure practitioners that reporting thresholds are high.
THE Medical Board of Australia has moved to reassure doctors still concerned about mandatory reporting laws, hinting that some doctors remain unclear about when it is appropriate to notify authorities about a colleague.
AFTER leading the sometimes bumpy ride to national registration for doctors, reappointed Medical Board of Australia chair Dr Joanna Flynn says her next goal is ensuring regulation serves the broader community.
AFTER leading the sometimes bumpy ride to national registration for doctors, reappointed Medical Board of Australia chair Dr Joanna Flynn says her next goal is ensuring regulation serves the broader community.
GPs would be subject to mandatory, age-based performance testing if the Medical Board of Australia decides to start testing doctors over the age of 75, MBA chair Dr Joanna Flynn said.
THE Medical Board of Australia’s mandatory reporting laws are once again under the microscope after a landmark ruling found doctors who report colleagues to authorities can be sued for defamation despite being legally obliged to do so.
THE campaign to create a limited registration category for senior doctors ‘stepping down’ their practices will continue with a meeting in Sydney next month.
A MELBOURNE GP who admitted enlisting her receptionist to help with liposuction procedures on intravenously sedated patients has been banned from performing the procedures for two years. Dr Usha Devi Venkataraman was also fined $2000 and ordered to undertake further training by the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal after admitting to unprofessional conduct of a serious nature. The orders related to procedures performed by Dr Venkataraman on three patients between May 2005 and October 2006, during which she performed liposuction and administered intravenous anaesthetic without another appropriately trained person in attendance, performed a skin excision that was ...
A FORMER GP found guilty of inappropriate sexual contact with five female patients – and who later admitted to lying about it under oath – has failed in his latest attempt to regain his registration. The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) wrote in a decision today that John Drury, who had practised in Bendigo, Victoria, committed a “severe betrayal of trust” and that it had “serious doubts and reservations about his honesty” because he later lied about it. “In circumstances where honesty and integrity are essential attributes in any doctor/patient relationship, we find that Mr Drury ...
The new national registration agency got off to a rough start. Caroline Brettingham-Moore finds out if it’s now ready to face the future
A BUREAUCRATIC bungle has left some Queensland doctors who renewed their registration before 30 June facing additional fees and paperwork, after the Queensland Medical Board failed to process all renewals before switching to the national scheme. North Queensland GP Dr Peter Vanrietvelde paid $459 in early June to renew his registration with the Medical Board of Queensland, but was later shocked to receive a letter from the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) requesting a further $191 and additional paperwork. Dr Vanrietvelde was asked to fill out additional forms relating to recency of practice, professional indemnity insurance ...
ALMOST 40,000 doctors across Tasmania, Victoria and South Australia have been encouraged to renew their registration online as the Medical Board of Australia faces a wave of re-registration queries ahead of the 30 September deadline. As the rollout of the national registration scheme continues, GPs will this week receive registration renewal notices, with more than 18,000 practitioners from all 10 registered health professions having already renewed their registration online since July this year. Last month, the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) was forced to increase its capacity after struggling to cope with 3000 enquiries a day. ...
FEARS that the new Medical Board of Australia would split the profession have been allayed, with the recent decision to include all vocationally registered GPs on the board’s specialist register. More than 11,000 GPs grandfathered onto the VR register will be allowed to use the title of specialist general practitioner – alongside RACGP and ACRRM fellows – when the national registration and accreditation scheme begins on 1 July. The decision puts to rest recent concerns that doctors without a fellowship would be restricted to general registration, despite their years of experience and commitment to continuing professional development. ...
MEDICARE has eased doctors’ concerns by confirming it will support a 28-day grace period to register with the new Medical Board of Australia before MBS access is denied. Under the new national registration and accreditation scheme, doctors must register with the new national board on 30 September. Last week, medico-legal experts voiced concerns that while the national board was offering a four-week grace period for doctors to register, Medicare had not agreed to similar allowances ( MO , 19 February). This week, Medicare has stated that it would only end a medical practitioner’s registration, and access to ...
MEDICAL defence organisations have voiced fears that doctors may have just 24 hours to register with the new national medical board when it begins taking registrations on 30 September. As part of the national registration and accreditation scheme, doctors will need to register with the new Medical Board of Australia. But while the board will give doctors a 28-day grace period before considering them unregistered, Medicare has not yet agreed to such an extension. According to Avant legal manager Helen Turnbull, Medicare might consider doctors unregistered the day after, leaving them unable to access the MBS. ...