New Zealand Gazette – 2001 – No. 172

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✨ Health Service Amendments

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"20.2 For medical/illness related prescriptions and laboratory referrals for Eligible People the payer is the District Health Board (or the Ministry of Health).

"20.3 Where the Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) is liable, prescriptions and laboratory referrals will need to identify ACC as the payer. Where an ACC claim has been registered, prescriptions and laboratory referrals should also identify the ACC claim number.

"20.4 Where more than one pharmaceutical is prescribed for a Patient at the same time and the subsidy for one or more of the pharmaceuticals will be paid by a different purchaser then the pharmaceuticals may not be set out on one prescription form."

Explanatory Note

Some General Practitioners who claim payment for GP services are paid under a Notice originally issued pursuant to section 51 of the Health and Disability Services Act 1993, and continued by the New Zealand Public Health and Disability Act 2000. On 1 July 2001, under the Health Sector Transfers (Provider Arrangements) Order 2001 (SR 2001/135), the Ministry of Health transferred its obligations under that Notice to the District Health Boards in whose regions the GPs’ services were provided.

Those District Health Boards and the Ministry of Health have worked together in consulting with the New Zealand Medical Association on the substance of these amendments. In essence, these amendments:

add Provider Quality Standards to the Notice, requiring GPs to work towards improved quality in their practices;
replace the existing Immunisation Schedule with a new Schedule that
a) seeks to co-ordinate these GPs’ services with other Well Child providers,
b) aims to increase the provision of immunisation information to the community, and
c) makes some changes in payments for immunisation;
make some changes to the rules regarding GPs’ interactions with laboratories.

These amendments are issued by all District Health Boards simultaneously. The Minister of Health has given her written approval to them in terms of section 89(3)(b) of the New Zealand Public Health and Disability Act, as they involve departures from the terms and conditions set out in the existing Notice. This in turn gives effect to the principle of national consistency contained in section 89 of that Act.

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