21 SEPTEMBER 2006 NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 109 3245

● For audits involving services for people with physical
or sensory disabilities, a person with a pronounced
physical or sensory disability must fully participate in
all aspects of the audit.

● For audits involving services for people with
intellectual disabilities, a person with an intellectual
disability (accompanied by a support person where
necessary), or a close family or whānau member of a
person with an intellectual disability, must participate
in all aspects of the audit.

● For people with psychiatric disabilities or mental
illnesses, a past or present consumer of mental health
services must fully participate in all aspects of the
audit.

2. The auditing agency is required to conduct annual health
   and disability focused audits, together with a compliance
   audit against the requirements of the Health and
   Disability Services (Safety) Act 2001.

3. The auditing agency is required to conduct annual health
   and disability services sector focused management
   reviews.

4. The auditing agency is required to provide written details
   of its internal appeals process to all clients.

This notice, which expires on 18 October 2008, revokes in
its entirety the notice that designated Bureau Veritas Quality
International pursuant to section 32 of the Health and
Disability Services (Safety) Act 2001, published in the
New Zealand Gazette, 4 May 2006, No. 40, page 1039.

Dated at Wellington this 11th day of September 2006.

S. McKERNAN, Director-General of Health.

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Designation of Auditing Agency

Pursuant to section 32 of the Health and Disability Services
(Safety) Act 2001 ("the Act"), the Director-General of
Health designates New Zealand Council on Healthcare
Standards Incorporated (Te Taumata Hauora) ("the
auditing agency") to audit the provision or likely future
provision of the following kinds of health care services:

• Hospital Care (as defined in section 4 (1) of the Act)
• Rest Home Care (as defined in section 6 (2) of the Act)
• Residential Disability Care (as defined in section 4 (1) of
  the Act)

This designation is subject to the following conditions:

1. The auditing agency must ensure that where it audits the
   provision of health care services for people with physical
   or sensory disabilities, intellectual disabilities, psychiatric
   disabilities or mental illnesses, the auditing agency
   observes the following:

● For audits involving services for people with physical
or sensory disabilities, a person with a pronounced
physical or sensory disability must fully participate in
all aspects of the audit.

● For audits involving services for people with
intellectual disabilities, a person with an intellectual
disability (accompanied by a support person where
necessary), or a close family or whānau member of a

person with an intellectual disability, must participate
in all aspects of the audit.

● For people with psychiatric disabilities or mental
illnesses, a past or present consumer of mental health
services must fully participate in all aspects of the
audit.

2. The auditing agency is required to conduct annual health
   and disability focused audits, together with a compliance
   audit against the requirements of the Health and
   Disability Services (Safety) Act 2001.\n

3. The auditing agency is required to conduct annual health
   and disability services sector focused management
   reviews.

4. The auditing agency is required to provide written details
   of its internal appeals process to all clients.

This notice, which expires on 5 August 2008, revokes in
its entirety the notice that designated Quality Health
New Zealand pursuant to section 32 of the Health and
Disability Services (Safety) Act 2001, published in the
New Zealand Gazette, 18 August 2005, No. 130, page 3180.

Dated at Wellington this 11th day of September 2006.

S. McKERNAN, Director-General of Health.

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Health Practitioners Competence Assurance

Act 2003

Reappointments/appointments to the Medical Radiation Technologists Board

Pursuant to section 120 of the Health Practitioners
Competence Assurance Act 2003, I reappoint

Jennifer de Ridder, as a health practitioner member with
experience in radiation therapy

Prue Lamerton, as a health practitioner member with
experience in nuclear medicine

Marie-Therese Borland, as a health practitioner member
with experience in diagnostic imaging

Raewyn Curin, as a health practitioner member with
experience in diagnostic imaging

Paula Jones, as a health practitioner member with
experience in diagnostic imaging

Barbara Beckford, as a lay member;

and appoint

Shelley Park, as a health practitioner member with
experience in MRI

Julia Metcalfe, as a health practitioner member with
experience in ultrasound

George Coalter, as a lay member

Georgina Parata, as a lay member

to the Medical Radiation Technologists Board for three-year
terms of office commencing on 1 October 2006.

Dated at Wellington this 12th day of September 2006.

PETE HODGSON, Minister of Health.

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Medicines Act 1981

Consent to the Distribution of New Medicines

Pursuant to section 20 of the Medicines Act 1981, the Minister of Health hereby consents to the distribution in New Zealand of
the new medicines set out in the Schedule hereto: