1 AUGUST 2013 NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 97

H Contribution to Educational Supervision Costs (usual 12-month programme) 3,600.00 1,6

I Review of Decisions 111.11 1

J Certificate Signed by the Registrar

Certificate of registered information 35.56 1
Certificate of good standing (or copy) 35.56 1
Duplicate PC 35.56 1
Any other document certifying registration status or standing 35.56 1

K Register

Register for 12 months on disk or sent by email (updated monthly) 311.11 1
Register for 12 months downloaded from the Council’s website 177.78 1
Register data requests – contact the Council office for information 100.00 1,8

Key to Annotations

1 Fee is not refundable.

2 Fee may be waived for some categories.

3 Those with Australasian postgraduate qualifications and holding registration within a general scope of practice will pay only for a change in existing scope.

4 Reduced fee payable if the medical practitioner is registered within a provisional or special purpose scope of practice where the appointment is for less than six months. If appointments are for longer than six months, the PC fee will be charged on a pro rata basis to bring medical practitioners on to their PC cycle.

5 Fee includes a disciplinary levy of $106.28 and may be charged on a pro rata basis to bring medical practitioners on to their PC cycle.

6 Fee will be adjusted for any specific requirements of the programme.

7 Fee is based on 54 tests over a five-year period. Additional test costs will be recovered and a $53.33 service fee will apply.

8 Fee is per hour but may be adjusted depending on the nature of the query. Any disbursements will be recovered at cost.

9 $83,333.33 is paid at the time of stage one submission and $3,333.34 at the time of stage two submission.

Explanatory Note:

These changes follow consultation by the Council with all medical practitioners with current practising certificates, in accordance with Council’s established practice of consulting on changes to prescribed fees. Medical practitioners received a document providing an explanation of the proposed increase. In the information provided to the medical practitioners, the Council noted:

(a) The additional disciplinary levy of $65.22 (exclusive of GST) that was implemented for 2012/13 would not be charged in 2013/14. One effect of this is a reduction in the Council’s revenue for 2013/14 of approximately $1M. A second effect is that those paying the practising certificate fee will pay less in 2013/14 even with the proposed practising certificate fee increase of $10.00.

(b) The practising certificate fee has not increased since 1 July 2009 (except for the disciplinary levy in 2012/13). Since that time the overall increase in the Consumer Price Index has been between 8% and 9%.

(c) The Council, like any organisation, is facing increasing costs. The majority of its increasing costs relate directly to its responsibilities as a medical regulator under the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003.

(d) The Council had reviewed all areas of expenditure and reduced several items.

Dated at Wellington this 31st day of July 2013.

DAVID DUNBAR, Registrar, Medical Council of New Zealand.

gs4779

Medical Radiation Technologists Board

Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003

Notice Replacing Scopes of Practice and Prescribed Qualifications

This notice replaces all previous scopes of practice and prescribed qualifications notices of the New Zealand Medical Radiation Technologists Board (“the Board”).

Introduction

Under section 11 of the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003 (“the Act”), the New Zealand Medical Radiation Technologists Board (“the Board”) is obliged to define each of the practice areas that make up the practice of medical radiation technology. The Board’s role is to identify for each of these practice areas – known as scopes of practice or scopes – the aspects of medical radiation technology covered by each scope. Medical radiation technology practitioners seeking to practise in New Zealand must first be registered with the Board in one or more of the scopes of practice as defined in this notice.

Section 12 of the Act requires the Board to formally “prescribe” the specific qualifications that medical radiation technology practitioners must have to be eligible for registration in each of the scopes of practice. The prescribed qualifications may be different for each scope of practice.

The Board last published a full list of the scopes of practice and prescribed qualifications for the profession of medical radiation technology dated the 1st day of December 2010 and published in the New Zealand Gazette, 9 December 2010, No. 170, page 4208. Since then the Board has consulted on, and approved, changes to the descriptors for each of its scopes of practice and associated prescribed qualifications, and as contained in this new Gazette Notice.

The Profession of Medical Radiation Technology

Medical radiation technology is a patient centred profession that encompasses the practices of medical imaging and radiation therapy. Medical imaging practitioners use different technologies to create images of the human body for diagnosis and the staging and management of disease. Radiation therapy practitioners use technology to create and evaluate images and data related to the localisation, planning and delivery of radiation treatments.