Checklist · Professional Discipline & Occupational Regulation
Health practitioner immediate action: show cause and decision checklist (Ahpra)
Checklist for a health practitioner who is told a National Board proposes immediate action: the proposed action, the submission, the decision, the public register, and whether an appeal is open.
- Kind
- Checklist. Steps or checks to work through and tick off.
- Where it applies
- Australia
- AI use
- Yellow You and the tool draft together, with you directing. You check every statement you rely on.
- Law stated as at
- 22 October 2026
- Status
- Maintained. Checked on 22 October 2026 against the authority it cites, for Australia.
- Version
- 1
- Source
- Written for this library
When to use it
Use when Ahpra or a National Board gives a health practitioner notice that it proposes to take immediate action. Act on the notice the same day. The submission, if any is made, is the practitioner's, settled with the advising lawyer.
Used for these tasks
- Advise on a practising certificate or licence decision
- Prepare the application for tribunal review of a licensing or disciplinary decision
- Build the complaint, investigation and deadline register for a practitioner
Each task page says how far AI may help with the task and what the lawyer must review.
How AI may be used
AI may enter the proposed action, the deadline and the decision from the notices; the lawyer decides the submission and whether to appeal.
AI may
- Enter the proposed action, the time for a submission, and the decision from the notices
- List documents the notice relies on, with the page or paragraph
AI must not
- Must not draft the submission or any account by the practitioner
- Must not advise that an undertaking cannot be appealed, or that it can, without the lawyer reading the current notice and the National Law
- Must not contact Ahpra or the Board
The lawyer checks
- The deadline in the notice is diarised in hours, not assumed to be a set number of days
- The submission answers the proposed action and does not ignore a clinical or conduct allegation
- If the decision is a suspension or a condition, the appeal period to the responsible tribunal is taken from the current National Law and the notice
Method: how the Green, Yellow and Red levels are decided. This is guidance for planning, not legal advice.
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