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The Board will undertake wide-ranging consultation on proposals that affect the profession.
Where there are consultations open for input, they will be shown below.
Where there are consultations which have closed, they will be shown under past consultations, along with the submissions that were received.
Released: 10 December 2025 Closes: 9 February 2026
Four National Boards (Boards) are asking for feedback on the Draft registration standard: General registration for experienced internationally qualified health practitioners (draft registration standard). The draft registration standard has been prepared for the following professions:
The Australian states and territories prioritised these four professions for faster pathways because these professions need more practitioners.
We expect the draft registration standard will encourage more internationally qualified health practitioners (IQHPs) to register in Australia by creating three faster registration pathways. These pathways will give IQHPs a way to register based on their professional skills and experience. Eligible IQHPs must still meet the standards needed to practise in Australia.
The public consultation documents are available below.
You can provide feedback by close of business on 9 February 2026 by one of two ways:
We will not respond to each submission separately, but we will publish a public consultation report.
We publish submissions at our discretion. We generally publish submissions to our website to encourage discussion and inform the community and stakeholders about consultation responses. Published submissions will include the names of the individuals and/or organisations that made the submission unless confidentiality is expressly requested.
We will not publish submissions that contain offensive or defamatory comments, or which are outside the scope of the subject to the consultation.
Please let us know if you do not want us to publish your submission or if you want us to treat all or part of it as confidential..
