National Boards annual report release

THE Annual Report for the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency and the National Boards for the year 2017/18 has been published online.

The report gives an overview of Australia’s health professional workforce, which grew by 23,800 to more than 700,000 health practitioners across the 15 regulated professions.

Student registrations increased by almost 4,000 to 161,114 and the report also notes more than 740 accredited approved programs of study delivered by over 330 education providers.

During the year AHPRA received more notifications than in any other year since the National Scheme began, with a total of 7,276 which was an increase of 5.5%.

AHPRA completed 13 proceedings in Magistrates and Local Courts involving health practitioners, with all prosecutions resulting in findings of guilt.

See the full report at ahpra.gov.au.