Board and AHPRA publish health profession agreement

16 Oct 2015

The Osteopathy Board of Australia (the Board) and the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) have published the health profession agreement (HPA) for 2015/16.

The HPA sets out the partnership between the Board and AHPRA, and the services AHPRA will provide in supporting the Board to carry out its functions.

The Board and AHPRA work together to implement the National Registration and Accreditation Scheme, (National Scheme), which is the scheme regulating registered health practitioners in Australia, in the public interest.

AHPRA CEO, Martin Fletcher, said that the National Boards and AHPRA are committed to working together to ensure not only transparency and accountability in financial reporting, but also in the role both play in protecting the public through the regulation of the professions under the National Law¹.

‘The guiding principles of the National Law require the National Scheme to operate in a ‘transparent, accountable, efficient, effective and fair way’. So it’s important that the professions and the community know how AHPRA and the Boards work in partnership to regulate the professions in the public interest and facilitate access to safer healthcare,’ Mr Fletcher said.

Osteopathy Board Chair, Dr Nikole Grbin, said, ‘We are accountable to the profession and the public to ensure we provide as much information as possible about how registration fees are allocated to regulate the profession in Australia.’

The 2015/16 Osteopathy Board of Australia and AHPRA Health Profession Agreement is available on the Health Profession Agreements page.

For more information

• Visit the AHPRA website
• For registration enquiries: 1300 419 495 (within Australia) +61 3 9275 9009 (overseas callers) 
• For media enquiries: (03) 8708 9200

Download a PDF of this Media release - Board and AHPRA publish health profession agreement - 16 October 2015 (118 KB,PDF)

¹Health Practitioner Regulation National Law, as in force in each state and territory.