A new and apparently improved calculator that predicts which doctors will be subject to repeat complaints has been developed with funding from AHPRA.

In 2015, researchers unveiled the PRONE scale that rated doctors’ chances of being subject to a future complaint in the next two years.

It was based on a doctor’s specialty, their gender, the number of complaints (substantiated or not) they had previously received and the recency of those complaints.

The same team has created the PRONE-HP algorithm, an upgraded version that aims to predict the risk for multiple health professions.