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Call for Submissions

The Steering Committee for the establishment of the Australian Register of
Naturopaths and Herbalists called for submissions on the registration of these professions.

The call for submissions had been made publicly available and major naturopathic and Western herbal medicine stakeholders were personally invited to make a submission.

Due to demand the due date for submissions had been extended to Sunday, 28 February 2010. As promised all submissions are to be made available on the ARONAH website below.

However, submissions will continue to be received after this date
Due to demand submissions will continue to be received until the Board is announced. However, we cannot guarantee that Board members will be able to take such late submissions into full consideration.

Submissions received


Links to pdf versions of documents and in order of receipt



Late Submissions





Notes

Note 1. Please find NHAA Attachments here


Note 2. The recommended amendments to the site have been made. The issue refers to the differences between specific common and legal uses of the word retrospective and prospective. The words have been replaced with proactive and reactive. The intended meaning of affected statements has remained unchanged.

Call for Submissions

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: