Is Health Practitioner Regulation Keeping Pace with the Changing Practitioner and Health-Care Landscape? An Australian Perspective

Jonathan Lee Wardle; David Sibbritt; Alex Broom; Amie Steel; Jon Adams

doi:10.3389/fpubh.2016.00091

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Is Health Practitioner Regulation Keeping Pace with the Changing Practitioner and Health-Care Landscape? An Australian Perspective

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Is Health Practitioner Regulation Keeping Pace with the Changing Practitioner and Health-Care Landscape? An Australian Perspective

Jonathan Lee Wardle, David Sibbritt, Alex Broom, Amie Steel and Jon Adams

Frontiers in public health, Vol.4, pp.1-5

13/06/2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2016.00091

PMCID: PMC4904026

PMID: 27379222

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consumer protection

health practitioner regulation

health professions

primary care

Public Health

regulation

Health-care delivery is undergoing significant evolution and change. Task substitution has resulted in some practitioner groups expanding their scope of practice by assuming more complex clinical roles, new practitioner groups have emerged, and consumer-driven demand has changed the way the public engage with health practitioners and the way many health-care services are delivered. Using Australia as a case study, this paper explores the issue of the hesitancy to include new professions in health professions regulation schemes. Despite the significant changes in the health-care delivery landscape, policy development in this area has remained relatively static, with active resistance to extending formal registration to new practitioner groups. Ignoring the issue of new practitioner groups in regulatory schemes is unacceptable from a public health perspective and runs against the key public protection objectives of health practitioner regulation. Development of pathways for the entry of new health practitioner groups into regulatory schemes must be developed as a matter of priority.

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Title: Is Health Practitioner Regulation Keeping Pace with the Changing Practitioner and Health-Care Landscape? An Australian Perspective
Creators: Jonathan Lee Wardle - University of Technology Sydney
David Sibbritt - University of Technology Sydney
Alex Broom - University of New South Wales
Amie Steel - University of Technology Sydney
Jon Adams - University of Technology Sydney
Publication Details: Frontiers in public health, Vol.4, pp.1-5
Publisher: Frontiers Media S.A
Identifiers: 991013035758302368
Copyright: Copyright © 2016 Wardle, Sibbritt, Broom, Steel and Adams. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
Academic Unit: National Centre for Naturopathic Medicine
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article

Is Health Practitioner Regulation Keeping Pace with the Changing Practitioner and Health-Care Landscape? An Australian Perspective

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