To the Editor: The timely article by Healy and colleagues1 should provoke debate within the profession. The authors’ decision to not consider “the relative merits of national versus regional registration boards” should not stifle discussion in the Journal.
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- 1. Healy JM, Maffi CL, Dugdale P. A national medical register: balancing public transparency and professional privacy. Med J Aust 2008; 188: 247-249.
- 2. Arnold PC. Professional regulation. In: Lock S, Last JM, Dunea G, editors. The Oxford illustrated companion to medicine. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001: 669-673.
- 3. Bell R. Protecting Medicare services: trials of a peer review scheme. J Law Med 2005; 13: 29-105.
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I am a former Deputy President of the NSW Medical Board, and was organiser of a professional protest leading to the 1987 amendments to the NSW Medical Practitioners Act.