Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee, , 2:39:42 to 2:41:19
The Chief Medical Officer explains the separation between professional codes of conduct set by national boards and clinical standards established by specialized health commissions and colleges.
Topics: Health, Law reform
Speakers: Justin Untersteiner, Senator Malcolm Roberts, Speaker 18, Blair Comley, Unknown Speaker, Ellie Whiteaker
So is it true that that ARPRA is supposed to implement standards determined by national board rather than authoring authoring standards of care themselves?
Again, uh the national boards don't set clinical standards. Um that is not the Role uh of the national boards. The national boards will set um uh have codes of conduct that outline the the conduct and behaviour and requirements of a practitioner in their day-to-day duties, but it doesn't go to the point of talking about particular clinical um uh specialty or areas.
I wonder whether the chief medical officer may want to just um outline how the clinical governance arrangements are actually put in place. It is a morass of I I'm not saying it's straightforward, that's why I think the Chief Medical Officer's explanation of how the clinical guidelines come into place would be useful.
So clinical standards are separate number of organisations, the uh Australian uh Commission on Safety and Quality and Health Care, um the National Health and Medical Research Council, and of course our network of uh professional colleges uh across the country for individual professions setting standards for their particular disciplines, Senator.
Thank you. Mr. Comley, you said last night that we could have the CDC today.
CDC is here, yes.
Um I think you said you were going to get them to watch the video of the proceedings last night. That'll be fine. We'll put in more questions on notice.
Okay, thank you, Senator.
Thank you, Senator Roberts. Senator Ruston.