Staff, students, contractors or locums and any other practitioner eligible to provide or assist in the provision of diagnostic imaging services to the practice must provide evidence of and maintain all appropriate and current registration and/or licences to undertake diagnostic imaging procedures.
Required Evidence
Copies of each registered health practitioner's Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) registration documentation, or an AHPRA registration number which can be verified on the public register. These practitioners include:
- medical practitioners
- dentist
- medical radiation practitioners
- nurses and
- allied health practitioners (including podiatrists, osteopaths, chiropractors and physiotherapists).
Copies of the AHPRA registration documentation of each student who is registered on the AHPRA student register.
Where the practice provides imaging modalities that involve ionising radiation, copies of each registered health practitioner's Commonwealth, State or Territory radiation user licence (or similar), or a registration number which can be verified on the public register, if required in the relevant jurisdiction.
Copies of each non-registered health practitioner's Commonwealth, State or Territory radiation use licence, or a licence number which can be verified, if required in the relevant jurisdiction.
Where the practice provides ultrasound services, copies of each sonographer's statement of accreditation on the Australian Sonographer Accreditation Register (ASAR) or a registration number which can be verified on the ASAR register for the purpose of determining registration on the Services Australia Register of Sonographers.
Evidence that the registration status of practitioners is reviewed annually, in line with AHPRA's annual registration process.