THE Pharmacy Board of Australia has advised of a new policy to ensure consistent removal of reprimands from the national register of practitioners.
The policy has been approved by all National Boards, and will ensure reprimands imposed by a performance or professional standards panel, professional standards committee or relevant tribunal or court are eliminated in a "consistent and effective way".
It also allows for the removal of reprimands imposed under previous legislation to be considered on an individual basis, consistent with removal powers under that legislation.
A sanction imposed under the National Law will be deleted from the national register on the publication end date set by the relevant panel, committee, court or tribunal - or if no end date has been set it will be removed no earlier than five years from the date of initial publication.
The affected practitioner must make an application for removal of the reprimand, and no relevant event must have occurred in the five year period of publication of the reprimand.
The new policy becomes effective from 02 Oct 2017 and will be reviewed annually, with an application form for removal of a reprimand to be made available online at www.ahpra.gov.au.
Details of the new policy were released in a communiqu from the Pharmacy Board's last meeting, which also announced that final year pharmacy students have been invited to participate in a webinar next week which will help them in the transition from student to provisional registration.
The online event will be hosted by Brett Simmonds, Pharmacy Board of Australia deputy chair and practitioner member from Qld, and will also be published on the Board website about two weeks after the webinar which takes place on 06 Sep 2017 - more details from pharmBAwebinar@ahbpra.gov.au.
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