Overview of the Health Practitioners Competency Assurance Act

This section contains:

• a brief overview of the HealthPractitioners Competence Assurance Act (HPCA Act)
• a table that sets out the classes of health practitioners covered by the HPCA Act.
• an outline of your obligations to monitor the registration, scope of practice and annual practising certificate of each health practitioner who works in your practice and a downloadable document for you to record this information; (This word document is subject to this disclaimer.
• an outline of your reporting obligations under the HPCA Act and
• an overview of the protections that the HPCA Act gives to quality assurance activities (QAAs) and your duties in relation to QAAs.
• further information is available on the MoH website.

Overview of the HPCA Act

The HPCA Act sets out a consistent regulatory and accountability regime for all health practitioners covered by the HPCA Act.

The principal purpose of the HPCA Act is to protect the public by providing for mechanisms to ensure that health practitioners are competent and fit to practise their professions.  All health practitioners have a scope of practice within which the practitioner is competent to practise.