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Michelle Wisbey

12 Aug 2026
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Medical Board ups registration cost

Michelle Wisbey

12/08/2026 4:22:34 PM

Its annual fee will jump to $1102 in 2026, up $44 from last year, with GPs having until 30 September to renew their registration.

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GPs have until 30 September to renew their general, specialist or non-practising registration.

The Medical Board of Australia (MBA) has increased its annual registration fee to $1102 for 2026, up $44 from last year.
 
The fee is a 4.2% increase on 2025, which was $1058, and sits above both CPI and this year’s Medicare indexation rate.
 
For those doctors’ whose principal place of practice is in New South Wales, the annual registration is $925 in 2026.
 
‘Your registration fees fund the Board’s regulatory work,’ the MBA said.
 
‘They reflect the risk and complexity of the medical profession, as well as the resources needed to address them.
 
‘The Board works closely with AHPRA to keep your fees as low as possible while continuing to meet regulatory obligations and the expectations of the public and practitioners.’
 
GPs now have until 30 September to renew their general, specialist or non-practising registration.
 
The MBA has also reminded doctors that those who take parental, disability or carer’s leave can now apply for a 30% rebate on their annual registration fee – this can be done while completing the renewal application.
 
According to the MBA, medical registration and application fees fund management of applications for registration, the development professional standards, investigating and managing concerns about registered health practitioners, and criminal prosecutions.
 
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Anonymous   13/08/2026 8:51:13 AM

AHPRA’s primary role is safeguarding the public, a duty comparable to that of law enforcement or the judiciary. However, unlike these public services funded by tax revenues, the funding responsibility for public safety in healthcare falls directly on individual practitioners. A renewal fee north of $1,000 significantly exceeds reasonable administrative overhead and should raise valid questions about how regulatory public protection should be funded.

Dr Campbell Robert Crilly   13/08/2026 11:02:49 AM

Like all business costs that continue to rise this will be added to the out of pocket fee that patient pays for a medical service.

Common sense   13/08/2026 2:41:10 PM

AHPRA fees are getting ridiculous, and should not be allowed to increase beyond Medicare indexation. A fee paid by doctors so that doctors can be persecuted... in what world does that make sense? To address doctors' concerns, AHPRA's grandstanding effort is to create a 'Vexatious Notification Framework', then uses the most narrow definition of 'vexatious' to render the framework essentially useless.

Here's an idea: all complaints can be classified into those with merit, or without merit. If the complaint has merit, then AHPRA's role is to protect the public and take disciplinary action. If the complaint does not have merit (i.e. vexatious), then AHPRA still has a role to protect the public - by prosecuting the meritless complainant, so that the community at large is not affected by doctors' downtime or pushing doctors towards defensive medicine.

Common sense   13/08/2026 2:45:06 PM

If the geniuses at AHPRA, with $315 million in revenue from fees alone, cannot figure out a system that works after all these years, here's a free idea: make all complainants sign a Stat Dec for complaint submission.

If the complainant is ultimately found to have made any false statement, then AHPRA can exercise one of two options:
1. Make the complainant pay a fine, that is used to offset any registration fees incurred by the doctor in future years
2. If the complainant refuses to pay, then AHPRA refers the breach of Oaths Act matter to AFP/CDPP

Doctors win being protected by practicing good medicine, the public wins by keeping doctors doing clinical work rather than responding to vexatious complaints, and AHPRA wins by having a new revenue source.