A REVAMPED national accreditation and registration scheme — billed as being independent of government control — is receiving cau tious approval from the med ical colleges.Under the new scheme, 10 separate boards will govern 10 health professional groups from July 2010. However, in a dramatic change at least half of the members of each board must be practitioners specialising in the profession that the board oversees.The scheme will also be expanded further in 2012, when Indigenous health prac titioners, Chinese medicine practitioners and medical radiation practitioners includ ing radiographers will also be regulated.Professor Russell Stitz, chairman of the Committee of Presidents of Medical Col leges, said he and other col lege presidents supported the new scheme “in principle”.He had previously...
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