Australia: Parliamentary Report acknowledges ex-"spouses" lodging false complaints against doctors

Submitted by Minuteman on Sun, 2012-01-08 04:25

From Chapter 5 - Related matters raised during the inquiry of the Finance and Public Administration Committee (Senate) report entitled "The administration of health practitioner registration by the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA)". Excerpt:

'Avant Mutual Group also noted that other complaints have been made by ex-spouses of doctors during family break-ups and anonymously. Avant concluded 'the necessity for AHPRA to be take care in accepting and acting on such complaints including using its emergency powers as set out under section 156, needs to be emphasised'.'

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