This website divides published documents that are aimed at providing guidance and setting standards for the profession into three sections:
- Current Medical Board of Australia codes, policies and guidelines - link
Medical Board of Australia (MBA) policies apply to all registered medical practitioners, including NSW practitioners.
(A rare exception might arise if MBA policy is not able to be applied in NSW in light of the different Law that operates in NSW concerning Performance, Conduct and Health matters).
- Current Medical Council of NSW policies, guidelines and position statements - Read more
When the NSW Medical Board transitioned to the Medical Council of NSW on 1 July 2010, the Medical Council approved the continued application of all previously operating Medical Board policies.
These documents only apply to NSW medical practitioners, or in relation to conduct or behaviour occurring in NSW.
These documents operate to the extent that an MBA policy and guideline does not already cover the area of practice under consideration. In general, as the MBA continues to develop policy or guidelines, the MBA documents will gradually replace NSW documents. There may be circumstances specific to NSW that will warrant NSW specific policy to act as an adjunct to an MBA policy.
- Archived Medical Council of NSW and NSW Medical Board documents - link
Superseded policies, guidelines, and position statements are provided for reference purposes.
I am a NSW practitioner. Which policy applies to me?
Using the example of the NSW Sexual Misconduct policy and the MBA Sexual Boundaries Guidelines:
The previous NSW Medical Board's policy on Sexual Misconduct applied to you up to 30 June 2010.
The same policy was approved by the Medical Council of NSW to remain in operation as from 1 July 2010, so it applied to you from that date until such time as it might be replaced.
The MBA Sexual Boundaries Guidelines became operative on 28 October 2011. This applies to all Australian medical practitioners, so the Medical Council of NSW's Sexual Misconduct policy was superseded by these guidelines.
There is no applicable adjunct policy that applies in NSW alone (if there was it would be published).
