AHPRA Activities

Of the AHPRA notifications which were finalised in 2017/18:

• 80.2% resulted in no further action being taken against the medical practitioner
• 1% resulted in the suspension or cancellation of a medical practitioner’s registration
• 7.8% resulted in conditions being imposed on a medical practitioner’s registration, or the acceptance of an undertaking
• 6.7% of resulted in a medical practitioner receiving a caution or reprimand by the Board.

There were 343 mandatory notifications made to AHPRA about doctors (<0.3% of registered medical practitioners).  The ‘notifiable conduct’ was:

• placing the public at risk of harm because of a significant departure from accepted professional standards (70% of mandatory notifications, involving 241 doctors)
• placing the public at risk of significant harm because of an impairment/health issue (18%, 63 doctors)
• engaging in sexual misconduct in the practice of the profession (9%, 30 doctors)
• practising while intoxicated by alcohol or drugs (3%, 9 doctors).

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