Junior doctors have been forced out of Canberra Hospital's orthopaedics ward over concerns around supervision.
The Canberra Regional Medical Education Council has made the determination junior doctors, including those in their first and second years, needed more supervision during their orthopaedic term.
Junior doctors will be able to undertake their orthopaedic terms at North Canberra Hospital and other hospitals in the region instead.
Canberra Health Services senior staff specialist Sanjaya Senanayake said the hospital was working with the council to allow junior doctors back into the orthopaedics ward.
"They've decided they need more supervision and therefore we're working with them in terms of timelines but that means we're going to staff the orthopaedics unit at Canberra Hospital with more senior doctors," he said.
Dr Senanayake said ward work would not be affected by the move.
"While those junior doctors aren't on the ward, the ward work will get done by engaging more senior doctors," he said.
Junior doctors will be able to return to the ward once they meet the requirements from the council around supervision. The decision to revoke the accreditation was made early last week.
The Canberra Regional Medical Education Council is responsible for the accreditation of prevocational medical training programs in the territory. The council also provides advice to the health minister.
Canberra Hospital has been troubled with training accreditation concerns over recent years.
Training accreditation is needed to allow junior doctors to be able to be trained across certain wards.
Canberra's women's and children's hospital lost its accreditation for training in maternal and fetal medicine due to specialist shortfalls in the department in 2022.
An accreditation review of the obstetrics and gynaecology unit at the Centenary Hospital for Women and Children last year found patients faced significant safety risks.
The hospital failed to meet many of the accreditation standards and was given six months to bring these up to scratch. This was reviewed in June.
The child-at-risk health unit underwent a review last year outside of the normal cycle and accreditation for the plastics term was also revoked.
Three doctor training programs in departments across Canberra's public hospitals were being closely monitored to ensure they can continue running last year, including surgery, obstetrics and gynaecology at North Canberra Hospital and cardiology.
Health Minister Rachel Stephen-Smith said she was frustrated at the decision but said Canberra Health Services had been working to address issues.
"Clearly it is very frustrating as Health Minister when you have an area that's found not to be providing that appropriate supervision or appropriate training for our junior medical officers," she said.
"But I also know that Canberra Health Services has been working really hard to address these issues over the last little while."
Opposition health spokeswoman Leanne Castley hit out at Ms Stephen-Smith.
"It is clear after she has lurched from one crisis to another this term, she is not fit to be Health Minister," she said.
