Medical practitioner in AU
What this register publishes today, what is missing, and the smallest change that would move it up.
What was found
The clearest example in the index of machine readability priced out of reach. The public register covers every registered health practitioner in the country across fifteen professions and refreshes roughly every fifteen minutes. The programmatic route is a subscription service returning XML, with a one-off connection fee of $4,000 and $1,000 a year after that, refreshed every 24 hours. The paid feed is slower than the free page. A full copy of a register is released only where the requester can show it is in the public interest.
What it publishes
| Check | Answer | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| A public page per licence | Yes | Gives a reader something to look at and a checker something to archive and attest against. |
| A bulk export | Gated | Lets a consumer hold the whole list instead of fetching one licence at a time, and lets anyone hash it. |
| Machine readable | Gated | A CSV or JSON rather than a page built for a browser. Decides whether checking can be automated at all. |
| Signed | No | Makes the file impossible to forge or mirror convincingly. Nothing reaches grade A without it. |
The next step
Export the list
A page per licence is already most of the work. What is missing is the same data as one file, at a stable address, refreshed on whatever cadence the register already runs. That is tier A of RVW-5 and it moves this row to grade B.
A grade describes a register, not the authority behind it and not the quality of its supervision. An authority can run an excellent register and still sit at grade D because it is a search form.
If this row is wrong, it gets corrected with the correction published beside it. The index is useful only if it can be argued with. Tell the lab.