THE Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) has announced the launch of a series of podcasts, dubbed Taking care, designed to help health practitioners, the first looking at vexatious notifications.
The subject of concern for many health practitioners, vexatious reports can be motivated by negatively reactive sentiment resulting in damaging statements being made to the health regulator.
In the first of the series, podcast host, Susan Biggar, speaks with Associate Professor Marie Bismark at the University of Melbourne, Kate Griggs, a health consumer advocate and member of AHPRA's consumer reference group, Dr Sara Bird, manager of medico-legal and advisory services at MDA National, and National Director of Notifications for AHPRA, Matthew Hardy.
"This episode talks about the defining characteristics of vexatious notifications and how common they are."
AHPRA CEO, Martin Fletcher, said, "It also looks at the impact they have on practitioners and explores how the regulator is working to identify, respond and manage vexatious notifications".
"The podcast is a continuation of the work AHPRA and the National Boards have been doing to improve the notifications experience for notifiers, practitioners and their support people, and to make information about notifications accessible to a broader range of people," Fletcher said.
"We know that being the subject of a notification is often very stressful for a practitioner.
"While the numbers are small, we recognise that the impact of a vexatious notification is very significant for the practitioner."
The general approach of the podcast series is to explore how to best protect the public and support the safe delivery of health care in Australia.
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