Medical Council of New South Wales

You can make a complaint about the health, performance or conduct of a registered health practitioner in NSW. We have different pathways for managing these different types of complaint.

You can make complaints to us about the professional performance, professional behaviour, or health of a registered health practitioner.

Resources required by Council and Hearing Members.

The Council's Health Program supports doctors whose health is impaired, with the ultimate goal they return to full health. While they are recovering, conditions may be placed on their registration. These conditions may limit the type of work they do. Other conditions...

Some complaints about doctors will be referred to the Medical Council's conduct program. This program manages matters of unsatisfactory professional conduct, and may result in the imposition of conditions or suspension of a practitioner's registration. It may also lead...

Health practitioners and their employers, as well as education providers, also have mandatory reporting (notifications) responsibilities under the National Law (NSW). Education providers, registered health practitioners and their employers must tell AHPRA if they have...