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Medical Council Of New Zealand
The Medical Council of New Zealand ( mi, Te Kaunihera Rata o Aotearoa) is the peak national standards and assessment body for medical education and training. It is responsible for the registration of doctors and has the power to suspend or remove the right to practise medicine in New Zealand. Its responsibilities are defined by the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003 and it is funded by practitioner fees paid by all practising doctors in New Zealand. See also * Health care in New Zealand * Cartwright Inquiry External links * Medical education in New Zealand Medical associations based in New Zealand {{NewZealand-org-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003
The Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal of New Zealand hears and determines disciplinary proceedings brought against health practitioners. The Tribunal was created by section 84 Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003 and established 18 September 2004. It supersedes the Medical Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal of New Zealand. The Tribunal is administered by the Ministry of Health and covers a range of professions including medical professions ( medical practitioners, nurses and midwives), dental professions ( dentists, dental therapists, dental hygienists), pharmacists A pharmacist, also known as a chemist (Commonwealth English) or a druggist (North American and, archaically, Commonwealth English), is a healthcare professional who prepares, controls and distributes medicines and provides advice and instructi ..., osteopaths, and chiropractors. Notable people associated with the Tribunal * Keith Paroa Curryde-registered for grooming young girls. E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Health Care In New Zealand
The healthcare system of New Zealand has undergone significant changes throughout the past several decades. From an essentially fully public system based on the Social Security Act 1938, reforms have introduced market and health insurance elements primarily since the 1980s, creating a mixed public-private system for delivering healthcare. *The Accident Compensation Corporation covers the costs of treatment for cases deemed 'accidents', including medical misadventure, for all people in New Zealand (legally or otherwise). The costs are recovered via levies on employers, employees, petrol and vehicle registration, and contributions from the general tax pool. *The relatively extensive and high-quality system of public hospitals treats citizens or permanent residents free of charge and is managed by district health boards. However, costly or difficult operations often require long waiting list delays unless the treatment is medically urgent. Because of this, a secondary market of h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cartwright Inquiry
The Cartwright Inquiry was a committee of inquiry held in New Zealand from 1987 to 1988 that was commissioned by the Minister of Health, Michael Bassett, to investigate whether, as alleged in an article in ''Metro'' magazine, there had been a failure to treat patients adequately with cervical carcinoma in situ (CIS) at National Women’s Hospital (NWH) by Herbert Green, a specialist obstetrician and gynaecologist and associate professor at the Postgraduate School of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Auckland. The inquiry was headed by District Court Judge Silvia Cartwright, later High Court Justice, Dame and Governor-General of New Zealand. The ''Report of the Cervical Cancer Inquiry'' was released on 5 August 1988. Background A 1984 medical paper published in ''Obstetrics and Gynecology'' by colposcopist Bill McIndoe, pathologist Jock McLean and gynaecologist Ron Jones, who were all employed at NWH and colleagues of Green, as well as statistician Peter Mullins, de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medical Education In New Zealand
{{CatAutoTOC New Zealand has two universities with medical faculties, but four 'schools' of medicine. The University of Auckland teaches medicine in the Auckland and Waikato Clinical Schools, and the University of Otago Medical School (based in Dunedin) teaches medicine in three medical schools: the Dunedin School of Medicine, the University of Otago, Wellington in Wellington, and the University of Otago, Christchurch in Christchurch. Both Auckland and Otago teach the initial three years of the course in Auckland and Dunedin respectively and both schools include 'rural immersion' programmes as an optional part of their clinical curricul1 After these first three years, Otago students are assigned to complete their degree in either Dunedin, Christchurch, or Wellington; whereas Auckland students are assigned to adjacent hospitals and teachi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
