Current Consultations

The Board undertakes wide-ranging consultation on proposals that affect the podiatry profession.

Consultation is an important part of the Board’s engagement with members of the podiatry profession, members of the public and other stakeholders. The feedback provided via consultation is greatly valued,and informs the Board’s development of important documents.

Where there are consultations open for input, they will be shown below.

Where there are consultations which have closed, they will be shown under Past consultations along with the submissions that were received.

Consultation on proposed options for guidance for podiatrists working with podiatric assistants

The Podiatry Board of Australia (Board) is consulting on proposed options for providing guidance to podiatrists working with assistants in their practice.

Have your say

The Board seeks your feedback on the proposed options outlined in the consultation paper, including the Board’s preferred option of replacing the current Guidelines for podiatrists working with podiatric assistants in podiatry practice with a contemporary high-level guidance document and supporting materials such as case studies.

• Snapshot of the consultation (187 KB,PDF)
• Consultation paper (533 KB,PDF)
• Response template (98.5 KB,DOCX)

You can provide your feedback using the response template above. Please send your submission as a Word document by email to: podiatryconsultation@ahpra.gov.au by close of business on 14 February 2024.

Publication of submissions

The Board publishes submissions at its discretion. We generally publish submissions on our website to encourage discussion and inform the community and stakeholders. Please advise us if you do not want your submission published.

We will not place on our website, or make available to the public, submissions that contain offensive or defamatory comments or which are outside the scope of the subject of the consultation. Before publication, we will remove personally identifying information from submissions, including contact details.

The views expressed in the submissions are those of the individuals or organisations who submit them, and their publication does not imply any acceptance of, or agreement with, these views by the Board.

The Board accepts submissions made in confidence. These submissions will not be published on the website or elsewhere. Submissions may be confidential because they include personal experiences or other sensitive information. Any request for access to a confidential submission will be determined in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Cth), which has provisions designed to protect personal information and information given in confidence.

Please let us know if you do not want us to publish your submission or want us to treat all or part of it as confidential.

Published submissions will include the names of the individuals and/or the organisations that made them, unless confidentiality is requested.