Anti-vaxxer doc agrees to stop practising

A Melbourne doctor has agreed to stop practising medicine after being caught out boasting about how he helped parents get around vaccinating their children.

Dr John Piesse has entered into a legally binding agreement with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency a year after the agency began investigating him.

His agreement to stop practising medicine is an interim measure and the regulator may still suspend Dr Piesse's registration.

Based at the Natural Healing Centre in Mitcham and the Natural Institute of Integrative Medicine in Hawthorn, the doctor was filmed boasting at an anti-vaccination rally that he helped hundreds of children to be exempted from the "no jab-no play" laws.

"I am a doctor who has been working hard for 18 months to try and help parents get exemption from 'vaccinated pain for vaccinated play', with mixed success," he said in the video published by the Herald Sun earlier this month.

Both state and federal health ministers have called on AHPRA to throw the book at Dr Piesse.

"Practitioners who peddle lies and misinformation about immunisation are a menace and put the health and safety of children at great risk - they must be stopped," Acting Victorian Health Minister Martin Foley said previously.