The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency has released its 2021/2022 annual report, revealing that over 18,000 notifications were made about health practitioners nationally.
AHPRA has published a revised shared Code of Conduct for allied health practitioners that comes into effect on 29 June 2022.
With the acceleration of digitisation and data capture in business, the true power and potential of data analysis are becoming clearer.
On 1 March 2022 the Health Legislation Amendment (Quality and Safety) Act 2022 (Vic) received royal assent.
The Health Care Complaints Commission (HCCC) recently released its 2020-21 annual report, revealing continued year-on-year growth in complaints.
The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal recently found a chiropractor guilty of professional misconduct for his promotion of dangerous anti-vaccination misinformation. As a result, the chiropractor was reprimanded, had his...
A pharmacist initiated intimate personal relationships with two women, who were his patients.
The Physiotherapy Board of Australia recently announced changes to the renewal of registration in 2020. When applying to renew registration in 2020, physiotherapists will now be asked to declare that,...
On 9 October 2018, Prime Minister Scott Morrison, Minister for Health, Greg Hunt, and Minister for Senior Australians and Aged Care, Ken Wyatt, confirmed that the Royal Commission into Aged...
On Sunday 16 September, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced a Royal Commission into Australia's aged care system. The aged care sector has been on the government's agenda for some time....
Jane Fiske, Partner in the Lander & Rogers’ Health & Ageing team, discusses what should and should not be included in patient records and explains why good record keeping is...