Introduction
Case histories are based on actual medical negligence claims or
medicolegal referrals; however certain facts have been omitted
or changed by the author to ensure the anonymity of the parties
involved.
On 26 March 2008, the Council of Australian Governments signed
an Intergovernmental Agreement for a National Registration and
Accreditation Scheme for the Health Professions. The new scheme is
scheduled to be introduced on 1 July 2010. As part of the scheme
all registered health practitioners will be legally required to report
any other registered health practitioner who has behaved in a
manner that constitutes ‘notifiable conduct’. The threshold to be met
to trigger the requirement to report notifiable conduct in relation to a
practitioner is high, and the practitioner or employer must have first
formed a ‘reasonable belief’ that the behaviour constitutes notifiable
conduct. This article discusses this new legislation, the circumstances
in which a colleague’s conduct must be reported and how a
notification should be made.
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