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Healthcare professional registers
Registers of licensed clinicians — doctors, nurses, pharmacists, dentists and allied professions — with licence status, expiry and disciplinary history where published.
2 of one regulator per profession per jurisdiction; 16 boards in Australia and 50+ US states alone catalogued. This family is fragmented — the 2 below are a sample, not coverage.
Who asks for this
Hospital credentialing manager verifying a clinician before onboarding
What it answers
Answers "is this clinician licensed, where, and is there anything against them" — the daily question of credentialing teams, staffing agencies and hospital HR, who currently check one regulator at a time.
| Record class | Registry / licence registry_licence |
|---|---|
| Sector | Health workforce HEAL>workforce |
| Already served by | not yet checked |
Typical fields
- name
- licence number
- profession
- status
- issue date
- expiry
- disciplinary flags
Catalogued instances (2)
| Dataset | Jurisdiction | Class | Access | Licence | Status | Req. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australia AHPRA register of practitioners | Australia | Registry / licence | portal | unverified | requested | |
| US NPPES National Provider Identifier registry | United States | Registry / licence | csv | unverified | requested |
Each instance is a separate publisher with its own licence. We never infer a licence from the family, the publisher or the country — the Environment Agency publishes one dataset under the Open Government Licence and another marked all rights reserved.