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Check treating professional details
This article provides guidance for an access delegate to:
check treating health professional details.
Recent updates
November 2023
Title changed from ‘Check treating health professional details to come into line with companion article ‘Record treating professional details’ and OG – Applying AHPRA URL added to 2nd instruction to check details of treating health professional.
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You have read and understood:
Our Guideline – Applying, in particular How do we decide if you’re eligible?
Check treating health professional details
When assessing a person’s NDIS application, you must check that evidence regarding a person’s disability is provided from a suitably accredited and/or registered treating professional. To check and confirm their details, use the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) website.
For all evidence of disability documents:
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Obtain the treating health practitioner details
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Refer to the AHPRA website
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Navigate to the Look up a practitioner section in the top right-hand corner of the page
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Review the list of professions that can be confirmed in AHPRA
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Search for each treating health professional via Name or Registration Number
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Use the filters if you need to refine the search results
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Select the relevant treating professional
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Review to check they have current qualifications and registration.
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Note: All evidence from a treating professional with a profession listed in AHPRA must be
checked to make sure they are currently registered. For a list of AHPRA regulated professions
visit the AHPRA website.
If you have any concerns about the evidence of the treating professional details, you should
escalate as an integrity issue.
Next steps
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To learn more about integrity issues, refer to article Escalate application integrity issue.
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To record the AHPRA registration number of a treating professional refer to article Record treating professional details.
Article topics and case names – internal use only
User roles
This article relates to the following users:
dc_users_accessdelegate.
Topics
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t_applying.
Case names
You can use this guidance for the:
dc_case_accessrequest.
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