2013 Activity:
3A. Alison Pirret and Bernadette Paus worked with CNA(NZ) re-develop NPNZ Website to be more userfriendly and easier to navigate.
3B. Correspondence to MOH in collaboration with NZNO and CNA(NZ) to encourage the third reading of the
legislation to change NPs from designated to authorised prescribing. The third reading is now expected
before Christmas 2013.
3C. Consulted with NZNC regarding Misuse of Drugs act for NPs. NZNC & CNO support no lists or time
limits for controlled drugs when NPs become authorised prescribers.
3D: Advocating for standardised approval for ordering imaging tests across DHBs and PHOs. – NPNZ
representative – Margaret Colligan on national imaging task force. Agreement that NPs will have the same
imaging privileges as GPs in PHC.
2014 Plans:
3A: Continue to work toward NP authorisation to sign WINZ disability and sickness benefit applications.
3B. Continue to work with MoH to remove the barriers to accessing Section 88 for primary healthcare
practitioners
Aim 4. Resource and consultant for health practice in New Zealand.
2013 Activity:
4A. Promote Nurse Practitioner authorisation of Life Extinct form and Death Certificates. The Chief Nurse is
actively developing a plan to expand this authority to nursing currently.
4B. Consulted with ACC to ensure access to NP service provision is included in ACC contracts, fee
structures, treatment claims and referral processes. ACC did include NPs in their latest payment schedules,
however not at the payment level NPNZ had strived to achieve.
4C: NPNZ member – Rosemary Minto interviewed on 9 to noon about NPs in PHC.
4D: Diane Williams and Anna Dawson – develope B