Health Practitioner registration

To be eligible to apply for registration as an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Practitioner a person must provide evidence that they are:

  • an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander person; and
  • identify as an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander person; and
  • be accepted as an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander person in the community in which they live or did live.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Practitioner means a person registered by the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Practice Board. The practitioner may use the titles:

  • Aboriginal Health Practitioner
  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Practitioner, or
  • Torres Strait Islander Health Practitioner.

Clinical practice means direct clinical care of patients, using the current knowledge, skills and attitudes of the profession, whether remunerated or not, and regardless of job title.

Approved programs of study (as of January 2017) and campuses are:

This standard was approved by the Australian Health Workforce Ministerial Council in December 2011, pursuant to the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (the National Law), as in force in each state or territory, with approval taking effect from 1 July 2012. It will be reviewed at least every three years.

As of 31 December 2016 there were 630 registered Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Health Practitioners in Australia with 2 having no Principal place of practice (PPP) 1 in the Northern Territory, 1 in Western Australia and 1 in New South Wales.

The table below represents registration type by principal place of practice.

ACT NSW NT QLD SA TAS VIC WA NoPPP Total
3 120 218 114 53 3 10 109 3 630

Data from the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) Annual report supplementary tables.

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