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2022

Public consultation - Regulation of medical practitioners who provide cosmetic medical and surgical procedures

Released: 14 November 2022
Closed: 11 December 2022

The Medical Board of Australia (the Board) consulted on three documents relating to regulation of medical practitioners who provide cosmetic surgery. The documents are in response to recommendations in the Independent review of the regulation of medical practitioners who perform cosmetic surgery.

  • Draft Registration standard: Endorsement of registration for cosmetic surgery for registered medical practitioners
  • Draft revised Guidelines for medical practitioners who perform cosmetic medical and surgical procedures
  • Draft Guidelines for medical practitioners who advertise cosmetic surgery  

Public consultation: Regulation of medical practitioners who provide cosmetic medical and surgical procedures (899 KB,PDF), Word version (370 KB,DOCX)

Please note: Health Ministers expect the Board to take urgent action to reform medical regulation of cosmetic surgery. This was a shorter, streamlined consultation process designed to meet the timeframes expected by Ministers. The approach to consultation takes into account the extensive public consultation undertaken as part of the independent review.

Submissions received

The Board received more than 130 submissions. Some stakeholders requested that their submission remain in confidence. Submissions from organisations are listed alphabetically below. Due to the number of submissions received, all other submissions are available in combined PDFs as listed below. Some submissions have been published with the person’s name withheld.

We have redacted contact details and potentially defamatory, sensitive or identifying comments from published submissions.

Disclaimer: The views expressed in the submissions are those of the individuals or organisations who submitted them and their publication does not imply any acceptance of, or agreement with, these views by Ahpra or the Medical Board.

Submissions from organisations

Submissions from individuals 

Public consultation on the English language skills registration standards

Released: 13 July 2022
Closed: 7 September 2022

The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (Ahpra) and the National Boards (except the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Practice Board of Australia) invited stakeholders to have their say as part of the public consultation on revised English language skills registration standards (the ELS standards) in July 2022.

National Boards published a consultation paper that included an overview of the review, proposed changes to the standards, frequently asked questions (FAQs), a literature review and questions to help frame feedback.

Consultation documents and submissions received are available on the Past Consultations page of the Ahpra website.

Public consultation: Independent review of the regulation of health practitioners in cosmetic surgery

Released: 14 March 2022
Closed: 14 April 2022 

 
 
Page reviewed 11/12/2024
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