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NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 120
15 SEPTEMBER 2004
MEDICAL COUNCIL OF NEW ZEALAND
NOTICE OF SCOPES OF PRACTICE AND RELATED QUALIFICATIONS PRESCRIBED BY THE MEDICAL COUNCIL OF NEW ZEALAND
The Medical Council (“the Council”) will assume its full responsibilities under the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003 (“the Act”) on 19 September 2004. This notice will take effect from that date.
SCOPES OF PRACTICE
Pursuant to section 11(1) of the Act, the Council specifies the following five scopes of practice:
General Scope of Practice
A medical practitioner registered within a general scope of practice is authorised to work within the Council’s definition of “the practice of medicine”. A medical practitioner registered within a general scope of practice must work within a collegial relationship to ensure appropriate continuing professional development (CPD) takes place.
The “practice of medicine” includes medical practitioners:
- Advertising, holding out to the public or representing in any manner that they are authorised to practise medicine in New Zealand;
- Signing any medical certificate required for statutory purposes, such as death and cremation certificates;
- Prescribing medicines whose sale or supply is restricted by law to prescription by medical practitioners;
- Assessing, diagnosing, treating, reporting or giving advice in a medical capacity, using the knowledge, skills, attitudes and competence initially attained for the MB ChB degree (or equivalent) and built upon in post graduate and continuing medical education, wherever there could be an issue of public safety.
“Practice” in this context goes wider than clinical medicine to include teaching, research, medical or health management, in hospitals, clinics, general practices and community and institutional contexts, whether paid or voluntary.
Provisional General Scope of Practice
A medical practitioner registered within a provisional general scope of practice must work in a position approved by the Council for a minimum of twelve months, under the supervision of a registered medical practitioner approved by the Council. During this time the medical practitioner must complete the Council’s requirements for registration within a general scope of practice.
Vocational Scope of Practice
A medical practitioner registered within a vocational scope of practice works within one of the 35 scopes of practice listed in Appendix 1 below, for which the medical practitioner has qualifications, training and experience that the Council determines appropriate to practise within the vocational scope.
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