Table 1 Overview of notifications under the National Registration and Accreditation Scheme
From: Outcomes of notifications to health practitioner boards: a retrospective cohort study
Who can be subject to a notification? | All registered health practitioners from 14 health professionsa |
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Who can make a notification? | Patients or relatives, self, fellow practitioners, employers, agencies, members of the public, complaint commissioners |
When can action be taken against a health practitioner? (ss 178, 191, 196) | A Board may take action if a practitioner: |
• Has behaved in a way that is unsatisfactory | |
• Practices in a way that is unsatisfactory | |
• Has or may have an impairment | |
A Panel or Tribunal may take action if a practitioner: | |
• Has behaved in a way that constitutes unsatisfactory professional performance | |
• Has behaved in a way that constitutes unprofessional conduct or professional misconduct | |
• Has an impairment | |
What actions may be taken? (ss 178, 191, 196) | Non-restrictive actions |
• No further action | |
• Referral to another body | |
• Caution, reprimand or fine | |
Restrictive actions | |
• Undertaking from the practitioner | |
• Imposition of condition on registration | |
• Suspension or cancellation of registration |