Code of Conduct & Constitution

NHAA Code of Conduct

The NHAA code of conduct was last updated in August 2021. To view, please click here.

This Code is intended to support Members of the Naturopaths and Herbalists Association of Australia (NHAA) to deliver effective health services within a robust ethical framework. Practitioners have a duty to prioritise the care of patients/clients and to implement safe and effective practices. Professional competence and appropriate conduct are fundamental to the provision of high-quality care.

The Code contains important standards for practitioner behaviour in relation to:
• providing good care, including shared decision making
• working with patients or clients
• working with other practitioners
• working within the health care system
• minimising risk
• maintaining professional performance
• professional behaviour and ethical conduct
• ensuring practitioner health
• teaching, supervising, and assessing.

Practitioners have a professional responsibility to be familiar with this Code and to apply the guidance it contains.

This Code will be used:
• To support individual practitioners in the challenging task of providing excellent healthcare, and fulfilling their professional roles.
• It also serves to provide a framework to guide professional judgment.
• As an additional resource for a range of uses that contribute to enhancing the culture of professionalism in the Australian health system.
For example:
• in practitioner education
• orientation, induction and supervision of students
• by administrators and policy makers in hospitals, health services and other institutions

Practitioners must always act in accordance with the law.

NHAA Constitution

The new NHAA Constitution was adopted during the NHAA AGM held on the 26th of October 2023.