Registration Processing Time
Registration applications are processed on a priority basis according to date of receipt of the application.
The current processing and review time is approximately 4 weeks, provided all supporting documentation, including your Certificate(s) of Registration Status, have been lodged with the Board.
After this time you will be forwarded a notification of the date on which the Board will consider your application or a notification that further information is required.
Upon your registration being approved, your details will become available on the Board’s website at the Public Access Register.
Office counter hours are 9.00am to 4.00pm Monday to Friday, with telephone contact being available
9.00am to 5.00pm Monday to Friday.
The Board recognises that like all people, medical practitioners can be affected by physical or mental illness, a condition or disorder, or substance abuse or dependence. A primary responsibility of the Board is to protect the public by monitoring doctors whose health is impaired. The Board only becomes interested in the health problems of medical practitioners if there are concerns about the practitioners ability to practise medicine safely.
If the Board is notified about a medical practitioner who is potentially unwell it takes care to ensure that the practitioner involved is treated fairly and sensitively and that members of the public are not put at risk.
The goal of the Health Assessment and Monitoring Program is to intervene with expert advice and assistance to help practitioners stay in the workforce wherever possible, provided this can be done safely. The Board’s aim is to have practitioners with an illness or impairment practice in such a way that neither patient nor practitioner is at risk. The Health Assessment and Monitoring Program is separate from the Board’s disciplinary procedures, with the focus being on support and recovery for the medical practitioner.
If you are a medical practitioner and concerned about your own health or that of a colleague, or a patient with concerns about your doctor’s health you should inform the Board using the hotline contact details below. This complements the mandatory notification requirement on the annual registration form. The Board will then begin steps to collect information from the medical practitioner and others, including the practitioners’ treating doctor, if there is one, to assist in an initial assessment.
Key features of the Health Assessment and Monitoring Program are:
Please be aware that the Board does not organise treatment for medical practitioners who are unwell. However, the Board does recommend that all medical practitioners, well or unwell, have their own treating practitioner, and do not self prescribe or self refer.
The Board has a Health Assessment and Monitoring Committee, which is responsible for co-ordinating investigations focussed on the health of medical practitioners when the Board has reason to believe they may have significant health problems which may place the public at risk. The Committee is also responsible for monitoring practitioners who may have had conditions imposed on their registration after an investigation has been completed.
You can find more information about the Doctor’s Health Assessment and Monitoring Program by referring to the information sheets below. There are two categories, assessment and monitoring.
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Fax: 61 7 3247 3267
E-mail: healthassessment@medicalboard.qld.gov.au