Accreditation consultations

The Podiatry Accreditation Committee undertakes wide-ranging consultation on the content of accreditation standards.

Consultations that are open for input will be shown below.

Consultations that have closed are shown under Past Accreditation Consultations, along with the submissions that were received.

Public consultation – Updated accreditation standards for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health practice, Chinese medicine, medical radiation practice and podiatry

Opens: 30 April 2025

Closes: 25 June 2025

The Accreditation Committee for podiatry is seeking feedback on their draft updated accreditation standards.

Accreditation standards are used to assess whether a program of study, provides graduates of the program with the knowledge, skills and professional attributes necessary to practise the profession in Australia.

The purpose of the review is to refresh existing standards to reduce duplication, enhance consistency between the standards of the four professions and reflect the priorities of the National Scheme.

The consultation documents include:

• a consultation paper
• the draft updated standards
• a response template to provide your feedback, and
• a statement against Ahpra's Procedures for the development of accreditation standards.

Have your say

We welcome feedback from organisations, registered health practitioners and the public.

Submissions can be made using the template provided and emailing to Accreditationstandardsreview@ahpra.gov.au.

Publication of submissions

The committee publish submissions at their discretion.

The committee generally publish consultation submissions on their websites to encourage discussion and inform the community and stakeholders. We will not place on our website, or make available to the public, submissions that contain offensive or defamatory comments or which are outside the scope of the consultation. Before publication, we may remove personally identifying information from submissions, including contact details.

The committee accept submissions made in confidence. These submissions will not be published on the website or elsewhere. Submissions may be confidential because they include personal experiences or other sensitive information. A request for access to a confidential submission will be determined in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Cth), which has provisions designed to protect personal information and information given in confidence.

Please let us know if you do not want us to publish your submission or want us to treat all or part of it as confidential.

Published submissions will include the names of the individuals and/or the organisations that made them, unless confidentiality is expressly requested.