Current Consultations

The Board undertakes wide-ranging consultation on proposals that affect the podiatry profession.

Consultation is an important part of the Board’s engagement with members of the podiatry profession, members of the public and other stakeholders. The feedback provided via consultation is greatly valued,and informs the Board’s development of important documents.

Where there are consultations open for input, they will be shown below.

Where there are consultations which have closed, they will be shown under Past consultations along with the submissions that were received.

Public Consultation – Proposed reforms for podiatric surgeons

The Podiatry Board of Australia (the Board) is carrying out public consultation on two proposals related to the regulation of podiatric surgeons:

1. Proposed change to the Board’s Registration standard: Specialist registration for the podiatry specialty of podiatric surgery to require podiatric surgeons to hold endorsement for scheduled medicines

2. Proposed draft Guidelines for practitioners undertaking podiatric surgery.

These proposals respond to recommendations 2.a and 2.c from the Independent review of the regulation of podiatric surgeons (independent review).

We invite practitioners, members of the community and other stakeholders to give feedback on these proposals.

• Consultation paper - Strengthening the regulation of podiatric surgeons: Proposed reforms (356 KB,PDF), Word version (229 KB,DOCX)

• Snapshot of the consultation (126 KB,PDF), Word version (168 KB,DOCX)

• Response template (104 KB,DOCX)

Released: 5 May 2025
Closes: 4 July 2025

Making a submission

To provide feedback please use the response template and email your completed response to podiatryconsultation@ahpra.gov.au.

Publication of submissions

Submissions to this consultation may be published on the Board’s website. There may be circumstances under which submissions may not be published. Published submissions will include the names of the individuals and/or the organisations that made them, unless confidentiality is requested.