Health Ombudsman
Role / OfficeReferenced in 5 bills
Health Transparency Bill 2019
This bill creates a new framework for publicly reporting quality, safety and staffing information about Queensland hospitals and aged care facilities. It also sets minimum staffing levels in public aged care homes and reforms the health complaints system to improve coordination between the Health Ombudsman and the national health practitioner regulator, AHPRA.
Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Bill 2022
This bill repeals and replaces Queensland's births, deaths and marriages registration law. It removes the requirement for surgery to change a person's recorded sex, allows same-sex parents to both use matching titles on birth certificates, streamlines registry services, and strengthens name change fraud prevention. It also adds new anti-discrimination protections for intersex people.
Health Practitioner Regulation National Law and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2024
This bill reforms Australia's national health practitioner registration system to better protect patients. It requires practitioners who have had their registration cancelled to get a tribunal order before reapplying, permanently publishes sexual misconduct findings on public registers, and makes it an offence to punish someone for reporting a health practitioner.
Health Practitioner Regulation National Law and Other Legislation Amendment Bill
This bill amends Australia's national health practitioner regulation laws to better protect the public from practitioners who have been struck off or found to have committed sexual misconduct. It was introduced following agreement by all Australian Health Ministers but lapsed at the end of the 57th Parliament and did not become law.
Health Practitioner Regulation National Law and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2022
This bill makes the second major stage of reforms to Australia's national law governing the registration and regulation of health practitioners across 16 professions. It strengthens protections for patients by giving regulators new powers to act against dangerous practitioners, improves information sharing between regulators and employers, and introduces a new objective for cultural safety for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.