ANMAC reviews accreditation standards approximately every 5 years. This is to ensure the standards remain effective and relevant to a continually evolving education and healthcare environment.

ANMAC's process follows the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency’s (Ahpra) Procedures for the development of accreditation standards.

Our accreditation standards reviews are guided by a Professional Reference Group (PRG). Members of this group are chosen for their expertise in a variety of areas, including:

• consumer advocacy
• clinical practice, education and research
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures
• health service delivery and management
• regulation and accreditation
• cultural diversity
• professional and industrial matters.

The PRG oversees consulting stakeholders and integrating their feedback into the updated standards. At the end of the process, the PRG provides recommendations to ANMAC’s Chief Executive Officer.

A major part of ANMAC’s process for standards review is wide-ranging stakeholder consultation.

We use a number of strategies to gain important feedback from key stakeholders. These include written submissions and online surveys during first rounds of public consultation. We publish submissions and feedback reports on our website during the consultation period. The final approval of accreditation standards rests with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia.

Sometimes updated standards have changes that accredited programs must respond to within a short timeframe. 

When this is the case, we get in touch with relevant education providers to give them information about the transition. This will include the evidence you need to provide us, as well as timeframes and due dates for the process and any fees that will apply. 

You can find more details in our Transition Policy for new Accreditation Standards.