Medical Practitioners Bill 2007

Public bill · Government · Presented

Would replace the older rules for regulating doctors with a stronger, more publicly accountable system led by a Medical Council with a majority of non-doctors. It would require doctors to be registered, properly trained and to keep their skills up to date; strengthen education and training standards; and introduce quicker complaint investigations, generally public hearings and sanctions ranging from warnings and fines to suspension or cancellation of registration. It would also prevent unregistered people from practising or advertising as doctors and give the public clearer information about doctors’ registration and qualifications.

Formal long title

for the purpose of better protecting and informing the public in its dealings with medical practitioners and, for that purpose, to introduce measures, in addition to measures providing for the registration and control of medical practitioners, to better ensure the education, training and competence of medical practitioners, to amend the membership and functions of the Medical Council, to investigate complaints against medical practitioners and to increase the public accountability of the Medical Council; and, for that purpose, to repeal and replace the Medical Practitioners Acts 1978 to 2002 and to provide for related matters

Last updated 17 April 2018