AHPRA Registration Number

Detects Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) registration numbers used to identify registered health practitioners across 16 professions.

Type

regex

Engine

universal

Confidence

high

Confidence justification

High confidence: the structured prefix-digit format is highly specific to AHPRA registrations and unlikely to appear in other contexts.

Jurisdictions

au

Regulations

HRIPA (Cth), IPA 2009 (Qld), My Health Records Act 2012 (Cth), NDB Scheme (Cth), Privacy Act 1988 (Cth)

Frameworks

ISO 27001, ISO 27701, SOC 2

Data categories

government-id, health

Scope

specific

Risk rating

8

Platform compatibility

Purview: Compatible, GCP DLP: Compatible, Macie: Compatible, Zscaler: Compatible, Palo Alto: Compatible, Netskope: Unsupported

Pattern

\b(?:ATS|CHI|CMR|DEN|MED|MRP|NMW|OCC|OPT|OST|PAR|PHA|PHY|POD|PSY)\d{10}\b

Corroborative evidence keywords

AHPRA, AHPRA registration, AHPRA number, AHPRA registration number, registration number, practitioner registration, practitioner number, registration no, reg no, reg number, AHPRA reg, registered health practitioner, health practitioner registration, government, agency, department, ministry, public sector, civil service, welfare (+8 more)

Proximity: 300 characters

Should match

• AHPRA registration: MED0001234567 — Medical practitioner registration number
• Practitioner number NMW0009876543 — Nursing/midwifery registration
• PSY0005551234 registered with AHPRA — Psychology registration in sentence

Should not match

• Reference code ABC1234567890 — Similar format but wrong prefix
• Serial number MED-001-234-567 — Hyphenated number that does not match pattern

Known false positives

• Internal reference codes using similar profession-prefix formats. Mitigation: The 3-letter prefix is restricted to known AHPRA profession codes, limiting false matches.