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Fees for Nurses and Midwives About audit
Forms AHPRA and the National Boards have developed a nationally consistent approach to auditing health practitioners’
Registration Renewal compliance with mandatory registration standards. Audits are an important part of the way National Boards and
AHPRA can better protect the public. They help to ensure that nurses and midwives are meeting the mandatory
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registration standards and provide important assurance to the community and the National Boards.
Re-entry to practice

Student Registration How will I know if I am being audited?

Internationally qualified nurses and
midwives
Enrolled to Registered Nurse or
Midwife Applications
Audits of random samples of health practitioners from all professions will occur periodically throughout the year.
If you are selected for audit, you will receive an audit notice in the mail from AHPRA. It includes a checklist that
outlines what supporting documentation is required to demonstrate that you meet the standard(s) being audited.

Audit
What is being audited?
Each time you apply to renew your registration, you make a declaration that you have (or have not) met the registration
standards for your profession. The audit requires that you provide further information to support your declarations.
Your audit notice letter will identify which standard/standards are being audited. One or more of the following four
mandatory registration standards may be audited.

What is the audit period?

The audit covers the period 1 June 2015 to 31 May 2016 and all questions on your audit checklist relate to this period.
The below registration standards were in place during this period.  

Document name PDF Date of effect

Criminal history registration standard  PDF (301KB)  To 30 June 2015 

Continuing professional development registration standard  PDF (300KB)  To 31 May 2016 

Recency of practice registration standard PDF (203KB) To 31 May 2016

Professional indemnity insurance arrangements registration standard PDF (258KB) To 31 May 2016

Declarations, your registration and the National Law

Under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law, as in force in each state and territory, AHPRA can request (on
behalf of a National Board) you to provide evidence, within 28 days, that you meet the standards, as declared in your
previous annual statement.

Your annual statement is made when you apply to renew your registration. It is supported by a declaration confirming
that it is ‘true and correct’.

The annual statement also includes (among other things) statements about whether:

you have met the recency of practice requirements stated in the National Board’s registration standard
you met the National Board’s continuing professional development (CPD) requirements as set out in the National
Board’s CPD registration standard during the previous registration period
you practised in accordance with the requirements of the National Board’s Professional indemnity insurance (PII)
arrangements registration standard, and whether you commit to practise in accordance with that registration standard

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if your registration is renewed, and

there was any change in your criminal history during the previous registration period and whether you have any other
criminal history that has not been disclosed to AHPRA.

Templates and resources

Below is a sample of templates to help you fulfill the requirements of the audit. You can print and complete these then
submit them as part of your audit response.

Self-directed CPD evidence record (117 KB,PDF), Word version (81.1 KB,DOCX)

This template can be used to document your self-directed learning activities and reflections. Self-directed CPD
may include activities such as online learning and reading professional journals.  
Standard format for a curriculum vitae 
Employer template for PII evidence (26.5 KB,DOCX)

Audit report
A public report of the nursing and midwifery audit is now available on the AHPRA website.

Additional information
Fact sheet: Continuing professional development
Fact sheet: Recency of practice
Fact sheet: Professional indemnity insurance arrangements 
Policy: Exemptions from continuing professional development 

If you need more information, please email the audit team at audit@ahpra.gov.au, or call the customer service line
Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm on 1300 419 495.

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25/10/2016

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