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

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 our Webinar with Professor Michael Weir as they keep you up to date with current laws and ethical guidelines, which might just save your professional reputation one day.

This year we will cover and expand upon some of the more recent cases that have occurred in relation to complementary, alternative and allied health professions. There will be a review in accordance with most recent and relevant cases and updated legislation and requirements.

About the Presenter:
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.

* * Please note that Angela Doolan was due to lecture for this law and ethics webinar 2022 but was unable to due to some unforseen circumstances. As such, Professor Michael Weir conducted the full scope of the lecture. Angela will be back next year for our 2023 law and ethics webinar.

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 Harm? Optimizing the Regulation of Traditional and Complementary Medicine Practitioners in Australia.”

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.

This webinar recording will have the most up to date cases available as of 2022

What is Covered

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 2022

Q&A Section- 10 minutes

What You Get After You Complete The Course

• Notes to keep
• 4 CPD Points (Covering Professional Issues as required by AHPRA)
• CPD Certificate 
• 5 year access
• Unlimited revisions during access period