What is wrong with the Medical Board of Australia?
The national regime for regulating doctors is not working says Dr Kerry Breen, a former president of the Victorian Medical Board
The national scheme for registration and regulation introduced 10 years ago has failed to win the confidence of doctors, says Dr Kerry Breen.
In this extract from his new book, Memoir of an Accidental Ethicist, the former president of the Medical Board of Victoria explains what went wrong and ways it can be fixed.
The national scheme for the registration and regulation of all health professionals, introduced back in 2010, has only one redeeming feature to my mind and that is the portability of registration between the states and territories.
Beyond that, it has failed to win the confidence of both the community and the medical profession and in some aspects, I’d argue it has taken the regulatory process backwards.
