1860 NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 79 4 JUNE 2009

Product: Risperdal Consta
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Prefilled syringe Diluent
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Dated this 2nd day of June 2009.

MARK RICHARDS, Acting Deputy Director-General, Sector Accountability and Funding Directorate, Ministry of Health (pursuant to delegation given by the Minister of Health on 6 July 2001).

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Mental Health (Compulsory Assessment and Treatment) Act 1992

Mental Health (Compulsory Assessment and Treatment) Act Notice 2009—Appointment of a Director of Area Mental Health Services

Pursuant to section 92 of the Mental Health (Compulsory Assessment and Treatment) Act 1992, I, Stephen Bruce McKernan, Director-General of Health, give the following notice.

Notice

1. This notice shall be read together with the Mental Health (Compulsory Assessment and Treatment) Act Notice 2000—Appointment of Directors of Area Mental Health Services (“the principal notice”)*.

2. The Schedule to the principal notice is amended in respect of

   “Area 1—Northland”

by omitting the name and title

“**Gloria Ann Johnson, medical practitioner of Whangarei.**”

and substituting the name and title

“**Jane Claire Simperingham, registered psychiatric nurse, of Whangarei.**”

Dated at Wellington this 28th day of May 2009.

STEPHEN BRUCE McKERNAN, Director-General of Health.

*New Zealand Gazette, 31 August 2000, No. 117, page 2963
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Social Security Act 1964

Maximum Contribution Applying in Each Territorial Local Authority Region From 1 July 2009

Under section 152 of the Social Security Act 1964, the Director-General of Health is required to notify the maximum contribution that applies in each region.

The maximum contribution is the maximum weekly amount (inclusive of GST) that a resident assessed as requiring long-term residential care (through a needs assessment and services coordination agency) is required to pay for contracted care services provided to them in the region in which their rest home or continuing care hospital is located.

Contracted care services are services provided to needs assessed people in a rest home or continuing care hospital that has a contract with a district health board. The services provided are those necessary to meet the person’s assessed care needs in accordance with the agreement between the district health board and the residential care provider.

This agreement covers residents who are:

• eligible for the residential care subsidy (under section 141 of the Act); or
• entitled to have funding paid to cover the difference between the maximum contribution and the cost of contracted care services provided to them (under section 140 of the Act).

The maximum contribution is the same for all residents regardless of the type of contracted care services they receive.

The maximum contribution set by this New Zealand Gazette notice applies from 1 July 2009 and replaces the previous maximum contribution notice published in the New Zealand Gazette, 19 March 2009, No. 35, page 943.

It is equivalent to the most recent, nationally agreed rest home contract price applying to residential care facilities in each territorial local authority region.

The maximum contribution will change only when a new maximum contribution is gazetted.

New maximum contributions will reflect changes to rest home contract prices that usually result from the annual review of the residential care contract between district health boards and residential care providers.