Medical Practitioners Board of Victoria
The Medical Practitioners Board of Victoria is a statutory authority that regulates the medical profession in the Australian state of Victoria. The operations of the Board are governed by the Health Professions Registration Act 2005, which also governs authorities for other health professions in Victoria. This Act replaced the Medical Practice Act 1994, which governed the Board until 1 July 2007.
The Board's duties include registering doctors, investigating complaints about doctors, monitoring the health of doctors who are ill and may be unfit to practise medicine, the development of guidelines for the profession, and on occasion producing special reports for the Victorian Minister for Health.
In April 2007 the Board drafted guidelines aimed at stopping doctors exaggerating their expertise and also banning "before" and "after" photos in advertising to regulate the cosmetic surgery industry.
Following the announcement of the Council of Australian Governments on 26 March 2008, the MPBV was assimilated into the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency.
