The Australian Register of Naturopaths and Herbalists is in the process of being established and will provide minimum standards of education and practice for naturopathy and herbal medicine. A Steering Committee has been set up to establish a Board for the Australain Register of Naturopaths and Herbalists. The Board will develop this independent register which aims to mirror government requirements for the regulation of health practitioners. The register is expected to be fully operational in 2010.
For more information about registration for naturopaths and herbalists please click one of the links below.
The Steering Committee for the establishment of the Australian Register of
Naturopaths and Herbalists is calling for submissions on the registration of these professions.
Due date for submissions has been extended to close of business Monday, 30 November 2009. All submissions will be made available on the ARONAH website.
Further details of the invitation can be found on the formal invitation document.
>> Download PDF version of 'Invitation to Submit'
Other health professions in Australia are currently undergoing a national registration process, details of which can be found at the National Health Workforce Taskforce website. Naturopaths and herbalists are not part of this process despite a strong recommendation by the seminal review on the issue initiated by the Victorian government (Lin et al 2005). The proposed independent register is expected to mirror the national regulation process and afford the public a similar level of protection regarding professional standards of practitioners and complaint handling processes.
Currently no fixed standards, policies or procedures have been developed by ARONAH and we wish to seek your input on these issues.
Should statutory regulation of naturopaths and herbalists be enacted it is expected the ARONAH register will be subsumed by this body.
Comments and submissions are invited from all industry stakeholders on the proposed register.
Submissions may contain recommendations for the proposed register or Board, registration standards or may highlight stakeholder concerns that need to be addressed. The purpose of this process is to facilitate consultation with stakeholders and therefore no formal guidelines will be imposed and submissions of any length, style and on any issue of relevance to the proposed register will be considered.
Document Links
Links to documents outlining the National Registration and Accreditation Scheme and the original Victorian government report can be found below and may be helpful in the preparation of a submission document
>> Download PDF version of 'National Registration and Accreditation Scheme Legislation (1.26MB)'
>> Download PDF version of 'Lin et al 2005 - The Practice and Regulatory Requirements of Naturopathy and Western Herbal Medicine (6.06MB)'
Sending Submissions
Please send hard copy submissions to:
- Australian Register of of Naturopaths and Herbalists
- PO Box 157
- LISMORE NSW 2480
Or please send your email submissions in pdf, word or rtf format to: