Evidence and supporting documents

The Board appointed an Expert Advisory Group to provide it with expert advice about approaches to support medical practitioners to maintain and enhance their professional skills and knowledge and remain fit to practise medicine. The Professional Performance Framework is the Board’s response to the EAG final report.

The EAG’s recommendations were designed to improve public safety. They recommended an integrated approach that would help improve public safety and better identify and manage risk in the Australian healthcare setting by:

• maintaining and enhancing the performance of all doctors practising in Australia through efficient, effective, contemporary, evidence-based CPD relevant to their scope of practice, and
• proactively identifying doctors who are either performing poorly or are at risk of performing poorly, assessing their performance and if necessary, supporting their remediation. The EAG identified that age, professional isolation and multiple complaints are all risk factors for poor performance.

The EAG report includes detailed evidence that supports the recommended approach.

Details of the approach and supporting evidence