Footnotes

Health Practitioner Regulation (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2010

[1]        House of Representatives Hansard, 24 February 2010, p. 1643.

[2]        Senate Hansard, 25 February 2010, p. 1241.

[3]        Senate Hansard, 16 March 2010, p. 1914.

[4]        The Hon Nicola Roxon MP, Minister for Health and Ageing, House of Representatives Hansard, 24 February 2010, p. 1.

[5]        Explanatory Memorandum, p. 1, 3.

[6]        See 25 June 2004 COAG Communiqué available from: http://www.coag.gov.au/coag_meeting_outcomes/2004-06-25/index.cfm#health accessed 4 March 2010.

[7]        Productivity Commission Research Report, Australia's Health Workforce, 22 December 2005, p. 111 and p. 133.

[8]        See 14 July 2006 COAG communiqué available from http://www.coag.gov.au/coag_meeting_outcomes/2006-07-14/index.cfm#health accessed 2 March 2010.

[9]        See 13 April 2007 COAG Communiqué available from: http://www.coag.gov.au/coag_meeting_outcomes/2007-04-13/index.cfm#health accessed 2 March 2010.

[10]      Intergovernmental Agreement, p. 3.

[11]      Refer to the website: http://www.nhwt.gov.au/natreg.asp. See also Ms Maria Jolly, Department of Health and Ageing, Proof Committee Hansard, 30 April 2010, p. 22.

[12]      Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee, National registration and accreditation scheme for doctors and other health workers, August 2009, p. 3.

[13]      Explanatory Memorandum, p. 1 and Ms Maria Jolly, Acting First Assistant Secretary, Health Workforce Division, Department of Health and Ageing, Proof Committee Hansard, 30 April 2010, p. 22.

[14]      DoHA, Submission 11, p. 3.

[15]      Explanatory Memorandum, p. 1.

[16]      The Hon Nicola Roxon MP, Minister for Health and Ageing, House of Representatives Hansard, 24 February 2010, p. 1643 and Ms Maria Jolly, Department of Health and Ageing, Proof Committee Hansard, 30 April 2010, pp 22-23.

[17]      Intergovernmental Agreement, p. 2.

[18]      Information available from http://www.nhwt.gov.au/natreg.asp accessed 4 March 2010.

[19]      AHWMC Communiqué 8 May 2009 available from: http://www.nhwt.gov.au/documents/National%20Registration%20and%20Accreditation/Design%20of%20new%20National%20Registration%20and%20Accreditation%20Scheme.pdf accessed 4 March 2010.

[20]      AHWMC Communiqué, 27 August 2009, p. 2.

[21]      Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee, National registration and accreditation scheme for doctors and other health workers, August 2009.

[22]      Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee, National registration and accreditation scheme for doctors and other health workers, August 2009, p. 14.

[23]      Australian Health Workforce Ministerial Council, Communiqué, Ministers Consider Submissions on Legislation on National Registration Scheme, 27 August 2009, p. 1.

[24]      AMA, 'NRAS Bill still fails the public interest test', Media Release, 28 August 2009.

[25]      Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee, National registration and accreditation scheme for doctors and other health workers, August 2009, p. 48.

[26]      Australian Health Workforce Ministerial Council, Communiqué, Ministers Consider Submissions on Legislation on National Registration Scheme, 27 August 2009, p. 1.

[27]      Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee, National registration and accreditation scheme for doctors and other health workers, August 2009, p. 49.

[28]      Australian Health Workforce Ministerial Council Communiqué, 'Health Ministers Announce Appointments to National Boards for the National Registration and Accreditation Scheme, 31 August 2009, p. 1.

[29]      Explanatory Memorandum, pp 6-7.

[30]      On 25 February 2010 the Medical Board of Australia announced its decision to include vocationally registered GPs on the Specialist Register of the new national registration scheme.

[31]      Explanatory Memorandum, p. 7.

[32]      Explanatory Memorandum, p. 3.

[33]      Australian Nursing and Midwifery Council, Submission 5.

[34]      Australian Nursing Federation, Submission 10, p. 2.

[35]      Ms Maria Jolly, Department of Health and Ageing, Proof Committee Hansard, 30 April 2010, p. 23.

[36]      Ms Maria Jolly, Department of Health and Ageing, Proof Committee Hansard, 30 April 2010, p. 23.

[37]      Ms Maria Jolly, Department of Health and Ageing, Proof Committee Hansard, 30 April 2010, p. 24.

[38]      Intergovernmental Agreement, pp 7-8.

[39]      Ms Maria Jolly, Department of Health and Ageing, Proof Committee Hansard, 30 April 2010, p. 25.

[40]      Australian Nursing Federation, Submission 10, p. 2.

[41]      Australian Nursing Federation, Submission 10, p. 3.

[42]      Ms Maria Jolly, Department of Health and Ageing, Proof Committee Hansard, 30 April 2010, p. 26.

[43]      Ms Maria Jolly, Department of Health and Ageing, Proof Committee Hansard, 30 April 2010, p. 26.

[44]      The Royal Australasian College of Physicians, Submission 6, p. 1.

[45]      Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons, Submission 7, pp 2-3.

[46]      Medical Board of Australia, Communiqué, 24 February 2010.

[47]      Professor John Horvath, Proof Committee Hansard, 30 April 2010, p. 32.

[48]      Australian Medical Association, Submission 3, pp 1-2.

[49]      RACGP, Submission 8, pp 2-3.

[50]      Ms Maria Jolly, Department of Health and Ageing, Proof Committee Hansard, 30 April 2010, p. 28.

[51]      Ms Maria Jolly, Department of Health and Ageing, Proof Committee Hansard, 30 April 2010, p. 28.

[52]      Dr Rhonda Jolly, Health Practitioner Regulation (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2010, Bills Digest no. 132, 11 March 2010, pp 16-18.

[53]      Australian Medical Association, Submission 3, p. 2.

[54]      Note: Pharmacists will be registered under the new scheme but their services do not attract Medicare benefits.

[55]      Australian Medical Association, Submission 3, p. 3.

[56]      RACGP, Submission 8, p. 3.

[57]      Ms Maria Jolly, Department of Health and Ageing, Proof Committee Hansard, 30 April 2010, pp 30-31.

[58]      Ms Maria Jolly, Department of Health and Ageing, Proof Committee Hansard, 30 April 2010, p. 31.

[59]      Mr Francis Sullivan, Secretary General, Australian Medical Association, Proof Committee Hansard, 30 April 2010, p. 15.

[60]      Department of Health and Ageing, answer to question taken on notice at 30 April 2010 hearing.

[61]      See AHWMC, Communiqué, 27 August 2009, p. 2.

[62]      Ms Carol Bennett, CHF, Proof Committee Hansard, 30 April 2010, p. 4, 6.

[63]      Ms Carol Bennett, CHF, Proof Committee Hansard, 30 April 2010, p. 1.

[64]      Ms Carol Bennett, CHF, Proof Committee Hansard, 30 April 2010, p. 4. See also letter from Ms Bennett to Mr Glenn Ruscoe, dated 28 April 2010, available from the committee website.

[65]      Department of Health and Ageing, answers to questions taken on notice at the 30 April hearing.

[66]      The Royal Australasian College of Physicians, Submission 6, p. 1.

[67]      Australian Medical Association, Submission 3, pp 3-4.

[68]      RACGP, Submission 8, p. 4.

[69]      Ms Julianne Bryce, Senior Federal Professional Officer, Australian Nursing Federation, Proof Committee Hansard, 30 April 2010, p. 11.

[70]      The CHF acknowledged the reasons given by the AHWMC for this: that the increased role of the state and territory health complaints bodies and the strengthened and formalised role of community members on national boards removed the need for the Public Interest Assessor role.

[71]      Consumers Health Forum, Submission 9, p. 3.

[72]      Australian Health Ministers' Advisory Council, Regulatory Impact Statement for the Decision to Implement the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law, 3 September 2009, pp 30-31.

[73]      Australian Health Ministers' Advisory Council, Regulatory Impact Statement for the Decision to Implement the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law, 3 September 2009, pp 30-31.

[74]      See Australian Health Workforce Ministerial Council Communiqué, 27 August 2009, p. 1.

[75]      Australian Health Ministers' Advisory Council, Regulatory Impact Statement for the Decision to Implement the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law, 3 September 2009, p. 31.

[76]      Department of Health and Ageing, answer to question taken on notice at the 30 April 2010 hearing.

[77]      Australian Medical Association, Submission 3, p. 4.

[78]      RACGP, Submission 8, p. 3.

[79]      Medical Board of Australia, Communiqué, 24 February 2010.

[80]      AHWMC Communiqué, 8 May 2009, p. 3.

[81]      Professor John Horvath, Proof Committee Hansard, 30 April 2010, p. 29.

[82]      Professor John Horvath, Proof Committee Hansard, 30 April 2010, p. 30.

[83]      Department of Health and Ageing, answer to question taken on notice at the 30 April 2010 hearing.

[84]      Ms Maria Jolly, Department of Health and Ageing, Proof Committee Hansard, 30 April 2010, p. 26; Ms Maria Jolly, Department of Health and Ageing, Proof Committee Hansard, 30 April 2010, p. 28.