Keep Up To Date With Australian Law & Ethics For Chinese Medicine Practitioners with NEW UPDATED Cases and Tribunal Decisions 2021.

Ever since Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine have become registered professions with AHPRA, we’ve had to maintain a minimum of 4 CPD points per year of “professional issues”.

*This is a 2021 recording of the Live webinarhosted by Bree Xiong and Presented by Professor Michael Weir and Angela Doolan as they keep you up to date with current laws and ethical guidelines, which might just save your professional reputation one day.

This webinar recording will have the most up to date cases available as of the July 2021.

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About the Presenters:
Dr Michael Weir is a professor of law at Bond University, a member of the the Public Panel of Assessors under the Health Ombudsman Act and author of “ Law and Ethics in Complementary Medicine”, Dr Weir is the perfect person to keep us up to date with our legal and ethical obligations as acupuncturists and Chinese medicine practitioners in Australia.

Angela is currently studying a PhD at Bond University under Professor Michael Weir and Associate Professor Wendy Bonython. Her current topic is “Protecting the Public from Serious Risk of Harm Posed by Unregistered Complementary Medicine Practitioners through Effective Regulation.”

Angela holds a Bachelor of Laws with first class honours from the University of New England, Armidale. Her honours thesis was on The Right to Health and Traditional and Complementary Medicine in International Law. An article summarising this work is available at the Bond Law Review online at https://blr.scholasticahq.com/article/11881-evolution-and-complementarity-traditional-and-complementary-medicine-as-part-of-the-international-human-rights-law-right-to-health

She is also a Southern Cross University trained and experienced naturopath, having worked for many years in Northern New South Wales as well as the foundational Chair of the Australian Register of Naturopaths and Herbalists (ARONAH). Angela understands some of the practical difficulties that can arise when working with the public in health care settings.

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What is Covered 

Part 1
Negligence
Apology and Liability in Contract
Potential Criminal Liability

Part 2
Regulation of Health Professionals under the National Law

Part 3
Providing Information to a Client
Consent to Treatment
Who can Consent?
Therapeutic Goods Act – Application to TCM
Consumer Legislation
Duty of Confidence
Professional Ethics
Advertising

Part 4
Court and Tribunal Decisions – MOST UPDATED CASES 2021

What You Get After you Complete the course

• 4 CPD points that cover you for professional issues according to AHPRA – upon completion of the course
• An understanding of our legal obligations as registered health care professionals
• Industry specific questions answered around registration, ethical obligations, non-registered practitioners, dual qualifications and conflict of interest amongst many more…
• 5 year access