Where there are consultations which have closed, they will be shown below along with the individual submissions that were received and considered.
Where there are consultations which are open for input, they will be shown under Current Consultations.
Survey: Professional indemnity insurance for privately practising midwives
Released: 8 March 2013
Closed: 8 April 2013
The Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (National Board) sought feedback on professional indemnity insurance (PII) arrangements for privately practising midwives.
This was done as a research project by Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC), funded by the National Board.
Submissions received
On behalf of the National Board, PwC is still collating feedback received - this will be published on the National Board website as soon as practicable.
Survey: Consultation on revised National competency standards for nurse practitioners
Released: 19 December 2012
Closed: 1 March 2013
The Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (National Board) sought feedback on a review of National competency standards for nurse practitioners.
This was done as part of a collaborative research project by Southern Cross University and the University of Sydney, funded by the National Board.
Submissions received
On behalf of the National Board, Southern Cross University and the University of Sydney are still collating feedback received - this will be published on the National Board website as soon as practicable.
Consultation on Guidelines for professional indemnity insurance arrangements for registered nurses and nurse practitioners
Released: 19 November 2012
Closed: 10 January 2013
The Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia sought feedback on guidelines for professional indemnity insurance for registered nurses and nurse practitioners.
Submissions Received
The National Board is still collating feedback received and will publish it in coming weeks.
Consultation paper on review of the accreditation arrangements for the nursing and midwifery professions
Released: 30 October 2012
Closed: 7 December 2012
- Public consultation on the review of the accreditation arrangments for the nursing and midwifery professions (714 KB,PDF)
- Submission from the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Accreditation Council- review of the accreditation arrangements (750 KB,PDF)
Submissions Received
- ACNP (646 KB,PDF)
- ACT Government health Directorate (3.77 MB,PDF)
- ACU (774 KB,PDF)
- Adelaide Uni (1.02 MB,PDF)
- ANF (2.48 MB,PDF)
- Australian College of Nursing (272 KB,PDF)
- CDNM (214 KB,PDF)
- CRH (382 KB,PDF)
- Deakin Uni (401 KB,PDF)
- Flinders University School of Nursing & Midwifery (761 KB,PDF)
- Nursing and Midwifery Office QLD (750 KB,PDF)
- Queensland Nurses Union (976 KB,PDF)
- Southern Cross Uni (762 KB,PDF)
- Southern Health (487 KB,PDF)
- TAFE NSW (757 KB,PDF)
- The University of Newcastle (757 KB,PDF)
Consultation paper on international criminal history checks
Released: 25 June 2012
Closed: 17 August 2012
Submissions received can be found here.
Draft policy on re-entry to practice for nurses and midwives
Released: 14 June 2011
Closed: 9 August 2011
The Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia sought feedback on a draft policy on re-entry to practice for nurses and midwives.
Submissions Received
The Board is still collating the feedback received, and will be publishing them in coming weeks. Overall the feedback received showed in principle support for the policy.
Draft for professional indemnity insurance for midwives guideline
Revision for professional indemnity insurance arrangements registration standard
'Quantum of cover' for professional indemnity insurance for midwives guideline
Released: 10 March 2011
Closed: 6 May 2011
The Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (the Board) is sought feedback from all stakeholders on the:
Submissions Received
There 36 submissions received. These submissions were received from all stakeholders including individuals, professional organisations, education providers and government.
Please note some submissions have not been posted on the Board’s website either on request of the author or where details of personal situations were described.
All requests to remove a submission from the website or include a submission can be arranged by e-mailing the request to nmba-consultations@ahpra.gov.au.
Individual submissions
Organisation / staff member submissions
- ACNP (295 KB,PDF)
- AMA (100 KB,PDF)
- ANF (29.5 KB,PDF)
- APMA (86.0 KB,PDF)
- Australian College of Midwives WA (464 KB,PDF)
- Australian College of Midwives (133 KB,PDF)
- CDMN (77.0 KB,PDF)
- Centred Midwifery Group Practice (197 KB,PDF)
- Essential Birth Consulting (245 KB,PDF)
- HBA (CoveringLetter) (107 KB,PDF)
- HBA (182 KB,PDF)
- Homebirth Access (275 KB,PDF)
- Maternity Coalition (189 KB,PDF)
- Midwives at Sydney and Beyond (980 KB,PDF)
- MIPP (290 KB,PDF)
- RCNA NMBA Professional Indemnity Insurance (1.23 MB,PDF)
- SA Health (31.1 KB,PDF)
- VMIA (66.3 KB,PDF)
Registration Standard for English Language Skills
Released: 11 November 2010
Closed: 14 January 2011
Submissions Received
There were 280 submissions received. These submissions were received from all stakeholders including individuals, professional organisations, education providers and government.
Please note some submissions have not been posted on the Board’s website either on request of the author or where details of personal situations were described.
All requests to remove a submission from the website or include a submission can be arranged by e-mailing the request to nmba-consultations@ahpra.gov.au.
Individual submissions
- Ibrahim Basma (122 KB,PDF)
- Ahir Dhaval (100 KB,PDF)
- Akshima Bharti (178 KB,PDF)
- Amanda Honeyaus (238 KB,PDF)
- Amanpreet (104 KB,PDF)
- Amitoz Saini (208 KB,PDF)
- Amrit Lal (293 KB,PDF)
- Angel Denton G Torio (125 KB,PDF)
- Anthony Yeh (199 KB,PDF)
- Ashish Joshi (102 KB,PDF)
- Baljinder Saini (210 KB,PDF)
- Bhupendra (109 KB,PDF)
- Binish (357 KB,PDF)
- Brian Gobie - (103 KB,PDF)
- Brijesh Chauhan (128 KB,PDF)
- Bryan Mak (111 KB,PDF)
- Cathy Bell - (101 KB,PDF)
- Chaman Suwal (110 KB,PDF)
- Chau (55.4 KB,PDF)
- Christian Richard (176 KB,PDF)
- Dave Manalli (180 KB,PDF)
- Dr Suhani Raj (100.0 KB,PDF)
- Erin Jacob (205 KB,PDF)
- Ernesto Nisperos (60.8 KB,PDF)
- Gina Kim (178 KB,PDF)
- Gini Dave (177 KB,PDF)
- Glen Warrenn (301 KB,PDF)
- Grace Wu (212 KB,PDF)
- Guojian (199 KB,PDF)
- Habib Anwar (213 KB,PDF)
- Henry Yang (266 KB,PDF)
- Hina Makawana (210 KB,PDF)
- Hossein Esmaeili (271 KB,PDF)
- Hye Jin Ryu (182 KB,PDF)
- Igor Yin (105 KB,PDF)
- Ilknur Esen Eren (66.4 KB,PDF)
- Jack Harrierjz (110 KB,PDF)
- Jack Huang (126 KB,PDF)
- Jairaj Thomas (274 KB,PDF)
- Jasmita Patel (101 KB,PDF)
- Jass (102 KB,PDF)
- Jay Deep (101 KB,PDF)
- Jay Parker (118 KB,PDF)
- Jia & Kyoung - (106 KB,PDF)
- JiangYing - (199 KB,PDF)
- Jigar Dave (182 KB,PDF)
- Jigar Patel (102 KB,PDF)
- Jige Yohannan (185 KB,PDF)
- Jignes Patel (104 KB,PDF)
- Joy Jolson (103 KB,PDF)
- Julie Myamyahtay (347 KB,PDF)
- Jyoti Suchitra Chaudary (130 KB,PDF)
- Kanai (189 KB,PDF)
- Kate Hall (158 KB,PDF)
- Kevin Hall (151 KB,PDF)
- Kusum Patel (102 KB,PDF)
- Kyung Hee Lee (194 KB,PDF)
- Lesley Mettam (250 KB,PDF)
- Li and Hong (278 KB,PDF)
- Maheshwari Patel (210 KB,PDF)
- Mahi Soni (206 KB,PDF)
- Makw (210 KB,PDF)
- Man Liu (228 KB,PDF)
- Mark Best (117 KB,PDF)
- May May (234 KB,PDF)
- May (229 KB,PDF)
- Mike Luo (111 KB,PDF)
- Minaxi Patel (99.7 KB,PDF)
- Mukesh Dave (182 KB,PDF)
- Nadia Hassen (192 KB,PDF)
- Neelima (59.5 KB,PDF)
- Neelu Dhawan (209 KB,PDF)
- Neil Ghantala (102 KB,PDF)
- Ning (115 KB,PDF)
- Payal Vas (271 KB,PDF)
- Poonam Kainth (99.4 KB,PDF)
- Pratik Basankar (177 KB,PDF)
- Puti Longkui (165 KB,PDF)
- Qinkun Liao (108 KB,PDF)
- Qiufen Dong (217 KB,PDF)
- Rachael Mcinerney (60.6 KB,PDF)
- Rajan Chettiyadathu (104 KB,PDF)
- Rajesh Kumar (132 KB,PDF)
- Rajesh Sikhija (206 KB,PDF)
- Rashmika Goswami (101 KB,PDF)
- Rayen Emmanuel (217 KB,PDF)
- Regina Neary (239 KB,PDF)
- Taruna (262 KB,PDF)
- Rekha Kumar (278 KB,PDF)
- Richi Rich (100.0 KB,PDF)
- Riddhi Takker (103 KB,PDF)
- Ruby Zhao (208 KB,PDF)
- Saina John (176 KB,PDF)
- Sanket Soni (208 KB,PDF)
- Shuang Deng (105 KB,PDF)
- Simranjeet Singh Rai (101 KB,PDF)
- Soban Thomas (363 KB,PDF)
- Songyu Dong (132 KB,PDF)
- Sophia Ye - (188 KB,PDF)
- Stella craneantony (312 KB,PDF)
- Stephy Var (103 KB,PDF)
- Sunjoo Heo (134 KB,PDF)
- Sunny Jamdar (182 KB,PDF)
- Suren Karmacharaya (107 KB,PDF)
- Suresh Pharma (103 KB,PDF)
- Tim Hoa (200 KB,PDF)
- Tinu Baby - (177 KB,PDF)
- Vesna Pismanovska (123 KB,PDF)
- Victor Xing - (67.4 KB,PDF)
- Vipul Patel (121 KB,PDF)
- Viral Soni (185 KB,PDF)
- William Jones - (147 KB,PDF)
- Yatharth Yatharth (110 KB,PDF)
- Yogiji Satyajit Gohil (2) (205 KB,PDF)
- Yogiji Satyajit Gohil (208 KB,PDF)
- Yue Xu (223 KB,PDF)
- Avanka Weerakkody (189 KB,PDF)
- Baldeesh Johar (178 KB,PDF)
- Brijesh Chauhan (55.5 KB,PDF)
- Cecilia Liu (174 KB,PDF)
- Davinder Kaur (100 KB,PDF)
- George Li (209 KB,PDF)
- Gloria Dimayuga (101 KB,PDF)
- Jagoda Koteska (187 KB,PDF)
- Jenishmon Abraham - (115 KB,PDF)
- Mevlida Selimovic (252 KB,PDF)
- Nicole lucazhang (128 KB,PDF)
- Nui Kawali - (179 KB,PDF)
- Puvaneswary Sreeharan (209 KB,PDF)
- Rishab Trivedi (181 KB,PDF)
- Sanket Soni (99.0 KB,PDF)
- Saya Kanai (144 KB,PDF)
- Seena Cyriac (131 KB,PDF)
- Soni Sanket (208 KB,PDF)
- Tissy Thomas (177 KB,PDF)
- Tushar Patel (101 KB,PDF)
- Yoshioka Mie (61.4 KB,PDF)
Organisation / staff member submissions
- ACMHN (220 KB,PDF)
- ANF (47.7 KB,PDF)
- BDQ Aviation (102 KB,PDF)
- Bridgid Holroyd (248 KB,PDF)
- CDNM (83.4 KB,PDF)
- Dianne Thompson - (337 KB,PDF)
- Elaine Duffy (93.0 KB,PDF)
- George Cherian ABE Services (212 KB,PDF)
- Linda Gregory (174 KB,PDF)
- Margaret Barnes (136 KB,PDF)
- Marr Mooditj Training Inc (628 KB,PDF)
- Maurice Drake (708 KB,PDF)
- Midwifery Council NZ (63.7 KB,PDF)
- NSW Board of NMBA (582 KB,PDF)
- NT Board of NMBA (324 KB,PDF)
- Nursing Council of New Zealand (334 KB,PDF)
- Prof Di Twigg (262 KB,PDF)
- QNU (6.12 MB,PDF)
- Robyn Dwight - (167 KB,PDF)
- TAFE NSW (69.1 KB,PDF)
- Teresa Downer (296 KB,PDF)
- The Uni of Sydney (253 KB,PDF)
- University of Cambridge ESOL (119 KB,PDF)
- West Coast Institute of Training (264 KB,PDF)
- ANMAC (132 KB,PDF)
- George Cherian (165 KB,PDF)
- Jogoda Koteski (318 KB,PDF)
- National Boards (393 KB,PDF)
- NZ Nurses Organisation (129 KB,PDF)
- Queensland Board of NMBA (286 KB,PDF)
- RCNA (1.40 MB,PDF)
- SA Board of NMBA (785 KB,PDF)
- Tafe SA (240 KB,PDF)
- The University of SA (209 KB,PDF)
Registration Standard and Guidelines for Endorsement as a Nurse Practitioner
Released: 29 October 2010
Closed: 26 November 2010
The Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) sought feedback from stakeholders regarding a revised draft Endorsement as a Nurse Practitioner registration standard and newly developed Guidelines.
Provision for nurses to hold both registration as an enrolled nurse and as a registered nurse at the same time
Released: 17 August 2010
Closed: 1 September 2010
The Nursing and Midwifery Board sought input from key stakeholders regarding the provision for nurses to hold both registration as an enrolled nurse and as a registered nurse at the same time.