Registration of practitioners regardless of whether they work in the private or

public sector or are self-employed

Purpose:
 To protect the public

Benefit of Registration

 can legally use the title of your profession

 greater confidence in your profession (professional qualifications have
been independently verified)
 your work is supported with a code of professional’s conduct and ethics
 protect the reputation of the professions – formal disciplinary procedure
for dealing with professionals who do not meet the standards expected of
them
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Benefits to the Public:

 providing health and social care professionals with a Code of

Professional Conduct and Ethics that includes the standards of
performance expected of them as they practise their profession;
 requiring educational bodies to deliver qualifications that prepare
professionals to provide safe and appropriate care;
 requiring registered professionals to undertake continuing professional
development so that they keep their skills up to date;
 allowing the publishing of a Register of names of those professionals
who meet the specified standards; and
 allowing the running of Fitness to Practise hearings, if necessary, into the
conduct and competence of a registrant, after a complaint is made.

Non-Malaysian Practitioners:

 Documentary evidence that the applicant’s expertise in the allied health

profession is not available in Malaysia