Aged Care and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2025 (45 of 2025)

Schedule 3   Amendments of other Acts

Healthcare Identifiers Act 2010

153   After section 9B

Insert:

9CA Professional bodies may facilitate the assignment of healthcare identifiers for individual healthcare providers

(1) A professional body may:

(a) facilitate the assignment of healthcare identifiers for individual healthcare providers who are provided with credentials by the professional body; and

(b) assist the service operator to establish and maintain a record of a kind mentioned in section 10.

(2) A professional body must not facilitate the assignment of a healthcare identifier for an individual healthcare provider, or assist the service operator in relation to such a healthcare identifier, unless the provider has consented to the facilitation and assistance.

(3) The regulations may make provision for and in relation to the facilitation by professional bodies of the assignment of healthcare identifiers, and assisting the service operator to establish and maintain a record of a kind mentioned in section 10, including, but not limited to, as follows:

(a) specifying requirements in relation to obtaining the consent of individual healthcare providers in relation to that facilitation, and ensuring the maintenance of that consent;

(b) specifying requirements relating to ensuring that information held by the service operator is accurate.