This survey has shown that current practice is highly variable in key areas, and the development, implementation, and regular updating of guidelines specifically for the Australian and New Zealander context are important. Such guidelines must be developed with input from a variety of stakeholders to assist with ensuring broad acceptability but are likely to be most beneficial if approached uniformly across the region.The NTAC have released their advice on IGRA, which seems to have been ignored. This could be due to the fact that health is a State not Federal matter. It could also be due to their failure to properly review their position with the available data and to be less reliant on opinions of others, like Canada.
Whatever the reason, the NTAC have had little effect on the uptake of IGRA in Australia.
