Regulators

Health checks for doctors over 70, including ophthalmologists, are being considered as data reveals the number of patient complaints jumps...

Ahpra is advising optometrists – newly minted and experienced – to take care with both their identities and their reputations....

Ahpra and the National Boards now have greater power when there are significant public safety concerns over unregistered practitioners who...

  The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (Ahpra) has announced multiple practitioner member and community member vacancies arising on the...

To make Australia a more attractive destination for overseas-trained practitioners, Ahpra and the National Boards are considering two additional changes...

New figures show 57 optometrists were the subject of complaints during the past year, as the Optometry Board of Australia...

An ACT doctor has been banned for 12 months over discriminatory and offensive behaviour towards Australia’s sole Indigenous ophthalmologist Associate...

The call has gone out for a medical professional to fill a vacancy on a committee that advises the Optometry...

Ahpra is asking practitioners to renew their general, specialist or non-practising registration before the end-of-year deadline, as new data shows...

The Queensland parliament has passed a new law restricting use of the title ‘surgeon’ to doctors registered in one of...