Stay on the right side of Ahpra’s advertising requirements
While there are laws for advertising any business in Australia, The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (Ahpra) has specific requirements for anyone advertising a regulated health service. And these requirements apply equally to all types of health professionals regulated by Ahpra. These advertising requirements are set under Section 133 of the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law. Therefore, breaching an advertising requirement is a criminal offence for which prosecution and financial penalties can apply. For an ...
Record keeping requirements.
Clinical record keeping is unfortunately one of those dreaded risk management topics. Guild Insurance understands that it isn’t the most interesting topic for health practitioners to spend time thinking and talking about. However, it’s incredibly important, and Guild’s experience suggests many health practitioners would benefit from learning more about good record keeping. Clinical records and insurance claims Clinical records can impact insurance claims in two ways: Poor records which lack detail can lead to incorrect ...
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When patients see multiple practitioners
Guild Insurance regularly manages claims where a patient has been treated by more than one practitioner. This has led Guild to explore how treatment by multiple practitioners may contribute to complaints by patients which can lead to an insurance claim. Evaluating another practitioner’s work It’s quite likely that many natural therapy practitioners will at times treat a patient who’s previously been treated by another natural therapy practitioner. And in some of these cases the practitioner ...
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