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Analysis of responses to Ministry of Health survey document - Review of the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003: Identification of issues and proposed solutions

Date of publication: March 2008
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The purpose of the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003 (the Act) is to ‘protect the health and safety of members of the public by providing for mechanisms to ensure that health practitioners are competent and fit to practise their professions’.

Section 171 of the Act requires the operation of the Act to be reviewed as soon as practicable once three years have passed since its commencement.

On 11 October 2007 the Ministry of Health initiated the review when it circulated the survey document, Review of the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003: Identification of issues and proposed solutions (the document).

The document presented information on the Act and asked respondents to consider how the operation of the Act had impacted on the health sector. Respondents were asked to identify operational aspects of the Act that were working well and those that needed improvement. Where operational issues were raised, respondents were asked to make suggestions on how these issues could be addressed.

The following analysis draws together the results of the Ministry’s survey, dealing with responses to each part of the Act in turn. Appendix 1 sets out comments from respondents in more detail. The respondents to the survey are listed in Appendix 2. Appendix 3 explains the various abbreviations used throughout this document.
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Analysis of responses

This publication is available in Word and PDF format below:
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  • Analysis of responses to Ministry of Health survey document - Review of the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003: Identification of issues and proposed solutions (PDF, 273 KB)

Individual responses

The Ministry has also decided to make individual responses publicly available. Before doing this the Ministry gave those who had responded the opportunity to not have their response published or to have their response anonymised. Several respondents have accepted this offer and thus the list below is not a complete list of responses.

Submitters
Accident Compensation Corporation (PDF 77 KB)
Ambulance New Zealand (PDF 253 KB)
Anonymous (PDF 144 KB)
Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Social Workers (PDF 145 KB)
Association of Salaried Medical Specialists (PDF 469 KB)
Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (PDF 763 KB)
Canterbury DHB (PDF 516 KB)
Capital & Coast DHB, Mental Health Social Workers (PDF 366 KB)
Capital & Coast DHB, Regional Mental Health Social Workers Network (PDF 379 KB)
Cardiac Sonographer (PDF 36 KB)
Chiropractic Board (PDF 595 KB)
CHLabs (PDF 301 KB)
Clinical Dental Technician (PDF 868 KB)
College of Nurses Aotearoa (NZ) (PDF 636 KB)
Counselling Psychologist (PDF 260 KB)
Counties Manukau DHB (PDF 438 KB)
Dental Council of New Zealand Secretariat (PDF 891 KB)
Dental Technician (PDF 87 KB)
Dietitian (PDF, 57 KB)
Dietitians Board (PDF, 691 KB)
District Health Boards New Zealand (PDF 846 KB)
Drug and Alcohol Practitioners’ Association Aotearoa-New Zealand (PDF 55 KB)
Family Planning (PDF 330 KB)
Federation of Woman’s Health Councils Aotearoa (PDF 799 KB)
General practitioner (PDF 115 KB)
Health and Disability Commissioner (PDF 329 KB)
Health Professional Advisory Group, Specialist Mental Health Services, CDHB (PDF 125 KB)
Institute of Clinical Psychology (PDF 481 KB)
Institute of Counselling Psychologists (PDF 303 KB)
Joint Faculty of Internal Care Medicine (PDF 525 KB)
Mauora Taranaki PHO (PDF 442 KB)
Medical Advisor, Wairarapa DHB (PDF 230 KB)
Medical Council of New Zealand (PDF 934 KB)
Medical Practitioner (PDF 116 KB)
Medical Radiation Technologist (PDF 94 KB)
Medical Sciences Secretariat (PDF 808 KB)
Medico-Legal Counsel, Auckland DHB (PDF 521 KB)
Mental Health Commission (PDF 189 KB)
Midwifery Council of New Zealand (PDF 672 KB)
National Heart Foundation Senior Fellow (PDF 42 KB)
New Zealand Anaesthetic Technicians Society (PDF 239 KB)
New Zealand Association of Counsellors (PDF 346 KB)
New Zealand Association of Medical Herbalists (PDF 364 KB)
New Zealand Association of Occupational Therapists (PDF 702 KB)
New Zealand Association of Optometrists (PDF 1 MB)
New Zealand Association of Orthodontists (Inc) (PDF 133 KB)
New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists (PDF 60 KB)
New Zealand College of Clinical Psychologists (PDF 244 KB)
New Zealand College of Midwives (PDF 378 KB)
New Zealand Dietetic Association (PDF, 382 KB)
New Zealand Dental Association (PDF, 530 KB)
New Zealand Dental Therapists Association (PDF 90 KB)
New Zealand DHB Psychology Leadership Council (PDF 559 KB)
New Zealand Institute of Dental Technologists Inc (PDF 496 KB)
New Zealand Institute of Medical Laboratory Science (PDF 168 KB)
New Zealand Institute of Rural Health (PDF 286 KB)
New Zealand Medical Association (PDF 376 KB)
New Zealand Nurses Organisation (PDF 3 MB)
New Zealand Psychological Society (PDF 654 KB)
New Zealand Public Service Association (PDF 741 KB)
New Zealand Register of Acupuncturists (PDF 113 KB)
New Zealand Society of Anaesthetists (PDF 897 KB)
New Zealand Society of Physiotherapists Inc (PDF 721 KB)
Nurses at Lakes DHB (PDF 271 KB)
Nursing & Clinical Services, Ashburton & Rural Health, Canterbury DHB (PDF 358 KB)
Nursing Council of New Zealand (PDF 717 KB)
Nursing, Counties Manukau DHB (PDF 1.4 KB)
Nursing, Otago DHB (PDF 99 KB)
Nutrition Services, Auckland City Hospital (PDF 327 KB)
Occupational Therapist (PDF 39 KB)
Occupational Therapists in Counties Manukau DHB (PDF 424 KB)
Optometrist (PDF 264 KB)
Optometrist (PDF 1.8 MB)
Optometrists and Dispensing Opticians Board (PDF 558 KB)
Osteopathic Council of New Zealand (PDF 202 KB)
Osteopathic Society of New Zealand (PDF 41 KB)
Otago DHB, Clinical Psychologists' Group (PDF 471 KB)
Palmerston North Women’s Health Collective (PDF 39 KB)
Pathways (PDF 393 KB)
PHARMAC (PDF 59 KB)
Pharmacist (PDF 53 KB)
Pharmacy Council of New Zealand (PDF 1.1 MB)
Pharmacy Guild (PDF 48 KB)
Pharmacy ITO (PDF 80 KB)
Physiotherapy Board of New Zealand (PDF 1.7 MB)
Platform (PDF 285 KB)
Podiatrists Board (PDF 339 KB)
Presbyterian Support Otago (PDF 421 KB)
Primary Care Development, Counties Manukau DHB (PDF 100 KB)
Programme Manager, Mental Health, Counties Manukau DHB (PDF 173 KB)
Projects Officer, Primary Health Care (PDF 24 KB)
Psychologist (PDF 36 KB)
Psychologist (PDF 75 KB)
Psychologists Board (PDF 738 KB)
Registered nurse (PDF 75 KB)
Rehabilitation, Older Persons and Allied Health, Hutt Valley DHB (PDF 267 KB)
Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (PDF 339 KB)
Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners (PDF 1.3 MB)
Royal New Zealand Plunket Society (Inc) (PDF 219 KB)
School of Health Science, Unitec New Zealand (PDF 433 KB)
Social Work Leaders Council, Waitemata DHB (PDF 149 KB)
South Link Health (PDF 104 KB)
Unknown (PDF 493 KB)
Wellington Independent Practitioners Association (PDF 295 KB)

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Date of publication: February 2008

ISBN number: 978-0-478-31727-5 (online)

HP number: 4560

Citation: Ministry of Health. 2008. Analysis of responses to Ministry of Health survey document - Review of the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003: Identification of issues and proposed solutions. Wellington: Ministry of Health.


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