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: global
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: 4
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

MED0001234567 — Exact 65 discovery probe with a valid AHPRA-shaped token and no corroborating context
AHPRA registration: MED0001234567 — Exact 75 probe with an explicit AHPRA label
Practitioner number NMW0009876543 — Practitioner-number form of an AHPRA registration
Doctor AHPRA registration MED0001234567 — Exact 85 probe with an explicit AHPRA label and independent provider role
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
Inventory code MED0001234567 was assigned to the imaging device — Valid-shaped token in non-practitioner inventory context must remain discovery-only

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.