The FPA has undertaken a major restructure of its member committees, with the association cutting its committees from 30 to 14.
FPA chief executive Mark Rantall said the restructure was a "major exercise" and a decision in line with the association's new three-year strategic direction.
"This is part of many changes that we've made post the vote in April, where we transitioned into a professional association just for individual practitioner members and, therefore, a number of our committees need to be restructured to align to that new vision," Rantall said.
"We've completely reengineered all our committees to be in line with our professional framework that we've put in place."
Under the new structure, member committees will operate in two different streams, he said.
"The first stream is the professionalism stream and the second stream is the member engagement stream and there are half a dozen committees that sit in those streams on different topic areas," he said.
"We took the opportunity to completely review what we needed our member input on and who would be on those committees and the structure of them and we reconstituted their terms of reference as well."
Rantall said the reduced committees were filled by FPA practitioners following communication with its membership.
"We actually opened up all of the committees for members to apply to come onto the committee. We went through a process where wrote to our membership and asked them to consider a committee," he said.
"So they've really self selected the committee they want to be on which obviously adds to their enthusiasm and their skill area."
Rantall said the new committee structure came into effect from 1 July.
In April this year, the FPA called on its members to vote on the adoption of a new constitution.
