Updated Health Law and Ethics for TCM Practitioners 2025 with Angela Doolan
Event recorded 15th June 2025.
COURSE OVERVIEW
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”.
Join us for this recorded webinar with Angela Doolan as they keep you up to date with current updates to health law and ethical clinical practice according to guidelines, which might just save your professional reputation one day and help you avoid any potential litigation.
In the 2025 update we covered and expanded upon the most recent health law cases that have occurred in relation to complementary, alternative and allied health professions. There will be a review in accordance with the most recent and relevant cases and updated legislation and requirements.
This recorded webinar will have the most up to date cases available as of 2025
COURSE OUTLINE
Part One: Our Legal System
- Negligence
- Apology and Liability in Contract
- Potential Criminal Liability
Part Two:
- Regulation of Health Professionals under the National Law
Part Three: Obligation to refer to medical practitioner
- 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 Four:
- Court and Tribunal Decisions – MOST UPDATED CASES 2025
- Questions & answers
ABOUT ANGELA DOOLAN
Angela Doolan has passed her PhD at Bond University under Professor Michael Weir, Associate Professor Wendy Bonython and Dr Anne-Louise Carlton. Her thesis title is“Regulating Australian Complementary Medicine Practitioners to Protect the Public: Analyses and Recommendations” and is freely available from the Bond University Research Portal.
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 here.
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.
WHAT YOU GET AFTER COMPLETING THE COURSE
- Notes to keep
- 4 CPD Points (relevant for professional issues)
- CPD Certificate
- 5 year access
- Unlimited revisions during access period