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The Guidelines for patient health records (the guidelines) explain the Chinese Medicine Board of Australia's (the Board) minimum expectations of Chinese medicine practitioners when making patient health records. When exercising professional judgment related to each individual patient, practitioners are expected to make and maintain their records in accordance with approved standards, codes and guidelines and the shared Code of conduct. Practitioners are expected to use professional judgment in deciding what to record on an individual basis.
The guidelines help Chinese medicine practitioners to practise safely and support the Board’s effort to facilitate public access to safe health services.
Revised Guidelines for patient health records were published by the Board on 1 July 2025 and will take effect on 1 January 2026. Read about the consultation process for the revised guidelines on our Past consultations page or in the consultation report below. Until 31 December 2025 the Patient health records guidelines (2016) will be in effect.
