Richard Di Natale (Victoria, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I seek leave to amend general business notice of motion No. 341 standing in my name.

Leave granted.

I move the motion as amended:

That the Senate—

(a) notes that:

(i) there were 10.9 million medical ultrasound examinations funded by Medicare last year,

(ii) the outcome of an ultrasound is reliant on the competence and expertise of the sonographer,

(iii) sonographers are the only medical imaging profession not regulated in Australia, and

(iv) calls to have sonographers regulated under national law are supported by the Australasian Sonographers Association; and

(b) calls on the Federal Government to sponsor a submission from the Australian Sonographers Association to the COAG Health Council for consideration of the proposal for sonographers to be regulated by adding the profession to the list of imaging professions already regulated by the Medical Radiation Practice Board of Australia.

Question agreed to.