Insights Sectors: Health

The Victorian government has introduced a suite of legislative amendments in the form of the Health Legislation Amendment (Quality Safety)…

The Medical Board of Australia has announced the implementation of a new Professional Performance Framework that will apply to registered…

In this video, originally published by BenchTV,  Principal Andrew Saxton and Anthony Bartley SC discuss the salient features of Tinnock…

The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) celebrated an enforcement win in October this year, with the successful prosecution of…

The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (‘AHPRA’) has applauded recent amendments[1] to the Health Practitioner Regulation Agency National Law Act…

On 19 October 2017 the COAG Health Council announced the first appointments to the Paramedicine Board of Australia. The Paramedicine…

The potential for inadvertent privacy breaches in the age of third party web providers became all too apparent for the…

In the wake of a recent flurry of regulatory activity by the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (‘AHPRA’) regarding advertising…

In this edition of Pharmacy insights we focus on recent legal developments which may impact on pharmacy businesses and highlight…

This article considers the health providers’ duty of care in disclosing genetic information to a patient’s relatives when consent is withheld. In an…

The case scenario: A complaint was made to the Pharmacy Board of Australia (‘Board’) that a pharmacist provided an excessive quantity…