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Health professions welcome moves to protect patient safety - joint media release
The news that the Federal Government believes health practitioner registration should be about public safety and cross border practice rights rather than social engineering is most welcome. It signals their appreciation that health care is comprised of a number of highly specialised areas, each with its own unique safety and quality issues.
Victorian health care professionals - doctors, dentists, optometrists and pharmacists - are united in their view that professions need to control standards within their professions and work together between our professions to improve the health system for the whole community. We will continue to work together to serve our patients.
The public wants to know that those entrusted with the right to provide their health treatment have the training and skills to give them predictably successful outcomes.
In a number of areas, both protection of practice and protection of title are required under the new national scheme, so that the public is not misled into thinking they are being treated by a health professional when in fact they are being seen by a non-professional.
It must be possible for those who risk public safety by providing health treatment without being registered to be prosecuted. We trust that the primary aim of the new national structure will be to protect the public.
Signed:
Dr Mark Yates
President
AMA Victoria
Dipak Sanghvi
President
The Pharmacy Guild of Australia
– Victoria Branch
Dr Greg Morris
President
Australian Dental Association
Victoria
Ben Harris
Executive Director
Optometrists Association Victoria
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