Have Your Say on Medical Practitioner Recency of Practice Requirements
29 January 2026
Consultation Closes 2 March 2026
The Medical Board of Australia is reviewing its Recency of Practice Registration Standard which sets out the amount of practice practitioners must do to be registered and what may be required when a practitioner doesn’t meet the standard.
Minor changes to wording and formatting of the existing registration standard are proposed, along with providing increased flexibility for practitioners who have not practised for more than three years to return to practice, while maintaining patient safety.
The public consultation paper below has more detail and explains how to have your say. You can use the response template below to email your submission to medboardconsultation@ahpra.gov.au.
The extended timeframe for the consultation is provided to take into consideration the busy end of year and holiday period.
The Medical Board of Australia is undertaking a public consultation on the review of the Recency of practice registration standard.
The consultation paper and response template are attached and are also available on the Board’s website at: www.medicalboard.gov.au/News/Current-Consultations.
If you wish to provide feedback, please email submissions to medboardconsultation@ahpra.gov.au by Monday 2 March 2026.
The Board publishes submissions on its website to encourage discussion and inform the community and stakeholders, unless requested otherwise. Please let us know if your submission is confidential.