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This year seems to be flying by with lots of exciting changes underway. Keep up to date with how these changes might affect how you engage with Ahpra, particularly as renewing your registration will look different this year. Ahpra has a new online portal with multifactor authentication to manage all aspects of your registration.
The Board’s guidelines for clinical record keeping are being retired from 1 December 2025. We encourage you to review the shared Code of conduct which includes regulatory guidance on record keeping.
As part of a wider project looking into identifying why practitioners stay or leave their profession, the Board and Ahpra have published a paper in the Australian Health Review. The paper highlights that the overall number of chiropractors in Australia have increased, however there are some issues in workforce stability.
With 6,770 chiropractors now registered, I wish you all a happy remaining 2025!
Dr Wayne Minter AM Chair, Chiropractic Board of Australia
When it comes time to renew, things will look different this year. Ahpra has a new online portal with multifactor authentication (MFA) to manage all aspects of your registration.
Multifactor authentication is an extra layer of security used to protect your data.
Before you renew, you will need to link an authenticator app to your portal. This app generates a one-time 6-digit code and is more secure than sending the code by SMS. Every time you log in, you’ll enter:
If you already know your username and password, you can log in now and link MFA. If you’re not sure what your username is, you can wait. We send an email with your username before you need to renew. If you share your email account with someone else, such as your partner, or use a group email such as ‘[email protected]’ then you will need to change it to an email that is unique to you when you first log in. There’s information available on the Ahpra portal help centre on how to do this.
Here is where you can find more help about logging in to your portal and linking MFA:
If you get stuck, try the troubleshooting tips, or use the portal help centre chatbot. You can also contact Ahpra’s Customer Service team.
The Board is retiring its Guidelines – clinical record keeping for chiropractors on 1 December 2025.
This decision follows a public consultation earlier this year as part of the Board’s review of the guidelines. The Board noted that the guidelines, which were introduced in 2012, could be considered overly prescriptive, included outdated references and didn’t align with the Board’s regulatory principles of responsive and risk-based regulation.
You can read more about this decision, and where to find resources to help you meet your professional obligations on the Board’s website.
Ahpra and the National Scheme have announced their Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Anti-Racism Policy, informed by extensive consultation and the expertise of Professor Yin Paradies, a leading scholar in racism and cultural safety.
This policy has been developed by and for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples to create a safe, valued, and respectful environment within Ahpra and the National Boards.
It forms a critical step in enacting Ahpra and the National Scheme’s policy and legislative commitments to eliminating racism.
Racism towards Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples is persistent, harmful, and structurally embedded. This policy acknowledges those realities and provides clear mechanisms for preventing, addressing, and eliminating racism within Ahpra, the National Boards and committees. It establishes stronger reporting pathways and introduces the Racism-related Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander-only Special Issues Committee (RATSISIC) to ensure culturally informed responses to racism.
The policy reflects the hard work and leadership of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Anti-Racism Policy Working Group, chaired by Associate Professor Carmen Parter, whose contributions were vital to its development.
Download a copy of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Anti-Racism Policy – you'll find this on Ahpra's Information Publication Scheme page under 'Ahpra, Ahpra Board and National Boards information', click on the Ahpra tab.
Practitioners taking parental leave can have money back in their pockets, as Ahpra’s parental leave fee relief policy is now in effect.
A 30 per cent rebate on annual renewal fees is available for health practitioners who take parental leave and certain other forms of leave.
‘We have listened to concerns and understand the cost-of-living pressures that practitioners who are parents, are pregnant, or have disability or carer responsibilities can face,’ Ahpra CEO Justin Untersteiner said.
‘Today is an important step in our ongoing process of making registration fee arrangements fairer and more flexible.’
The rebate applies to practitioners who take leave for at least six continuous months on the grounds of a protected attribute, such as parental leave and certain other forms of leave such as disability and carer’s leave.
A practitioner can claim the rebate at the next renewal after the six-month period of leave ends. It is available for future renewals, noting that the timing of annual renewals will vary.
Work has also started to improve processes when transitioning between practising and non-practising registration, as the annual cost for this has now been capped.
A wider review is currently looking at how a pro rata approach to fees can be implemented. It is expected to report by November 2025 with recommendations aimed at coming into effect by 1 July 2026.
Visit the Fee relief for parental and other types leave webpage for more information and to read the full policy.
Members of the Board and Ahpra’s research evaluation and insights team have co-written a paper which has been published in the Australian Health Review. Titled ‘Retention and attrition of chiropractors in Australia: the Workforce Retention and Attrition Project’, the paper is part of a wider project to identify why practitioners stay or leave their professions.
The overall numbers of chiropractors in Australia have increased. More people are entering the profession compared to those exiting. However, this paper highlights some issues in workforce stability, particularly among those with limited registration, non-standard work hours per week and casual/temporary contract status.
Of the 1,513 surveyed chiropractors, the research found that 80 per cent intend to stay in the profession. However, those that plan to leave (6.6 per cent) named lack of recognition and job satisfaction and unsatisfactory renumeration as the top reasons.
You can read the paper on the CSIRO PUBLISHING | Australian Health Review website. For more information about the wider project, read Research provides clues to boost health workforce retention on the Ahpra news page.
Ahpra issued its first ever public statement under new laws to protect the public. The statement, released in June, relates to suspended West Australian practitioner Peter Terzi, also known as Peter Taylor, who Ahpra believes poses a serious risk to persons because of his conduct.
Peter Terzi/Taylor, who held dual registration as a dentist and a nurse, has been suspended from practising in both professions since 26 February this year. He remains under investigation and Ahpra believes he may be continuing to present himself as a registered dentist or nurse while he is suspended and unregistered.
Ahpra CEO Justin Untersteiner said the power to issue a warning to the general public came into force two years ago, but this is the first time these powers have been used.
‘We take the matter of issuing public statements very seriously and will only ever issue such statements in exceptional circumstances where the public needs to be informed from a safety perspective,’ he said.
‘The threshold for issuing a public statement is set at a high level. The decision to issue a public statement may only be made when Ahpra or a National Board form a reasonable belief that a practitioner or person poses a serious risk to the public.
‘Issuing this statement today means we can warn the public while we continue to take steps to assess and investigate matters that could raise a serious risk to the public.’
Read the statement in full on the Ahpra website.
The Board’s latest quarterly registration data report covers the period from 1 April 2025 to 30 June 2025. At this date there were 6,770 registered chiropractors, including 448 with non-practising registration.
There are 46 practitioners who identified as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, representing 0.7 per cent of the profession.
For further data breakdowns by age, gender and principal place of practice, visit the Board’s Statistics page to read the report.
Australians undergoing cosmetic procedures such as anti-wrinkle injections and fillers will have greater protections under sweeping guidelines being introduced across the booming billion-dollar industry.
The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (Ahpra) and National Boards have published the Guidelines for practitioners who perform non-surgical cosmetic procedures and the Guidelines for practitioners who advertise higher risk non-surgical cosmetic procedures, which came into effect on 2 September 2025 to strengthen safeguards across the industry.
The new protections highlight that many practitioners need more than just the foundational qualifications included in their initial training before they can safely perform non-surgical procedures like cosmetic injections. Further training or education will be necessary for those practitioners wanting to expand their scope of practice.
While cosmetic procedures remain out of scope for many practitioners, the guidelines will now apply to all regulated professions, futureproofing those that may join the lucrative cosmetic industry.
Learn more about the new cosmetic procedure practice and advertising guidelines.
New resources are now available to help practitioners understand and adapt to changes to the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law, which will come into effect over the next 12 months.
Information on the changes, how they will be implemented and what they mean for practitioners and the public is available in the full information guide, while the two-page short guide provides a high level snapshot of the changes.
Both guides are available on the National Law amendments page on the Ahpra website which includes links to related topics and will be updated as our implementation activities progress.
The changes to the National Law were passed earlier this year, focusing on:
