4800 doctors automatically re-registered for pandemic battle

But doctors will have a choice whether to return and will still need indemnity insurance
Martin Fletcher
AHPRA CEO Martin Fletcher.

Almost 5000 doctors will be automatically re-registered with AHPRA on Monday so they can help strengthen the health system against COVID-19, without the paperwork.

Doctors who dropped off AHPRA’s register of practitioners in the past three years will be added to a new “pandemic sub-register”, unless they were under investigation or there were medical board conditions when their registration lapsed.