6 Employment Relations (Triangular Employment) Amendment Bill NZNO seeks your feedback on this Bill which includes changes to employment law which may impact on your working situation. Triangular employment is where an employer, for example a DHB, contracts the services of their employee to a secondary employer, for example a nursing agency. There are... [Read the rest of this article...] Posted in: Consultations
5 Psychoactive Substances (Increasing Penalty for Supply and Distribution) Amendment Bill NZNO seeks your feedback on this bill which would increase the penalty for selling or supplying psychoactive substances that are not approved products. The intent of the bill is to increase the penalty associated with the supply of non-approved products in line with the penalties for the... [Read the rest of this article...] Posted in: Consultations
29 Health (National Cervical Screening Programme) Amendment Bill NZNO seeks your feedback on proposed legislation for the National Cervical Screening Programme (NCSP) relating to disclosure of information from the NCSP register. The key change is to more clearly identify health providers able to have access to information from the Register. Currently,... [Read the rest of this article...] Posted in: Consultations
29 Draft Medication Guidelines: Home and Community Support Services NZNO seeks your feedback on the Draft Medication Guidelines for Home and Community Support Services prepared by the Ministry of Health (on behalf of the Home and Community Support Services Working Group). The aim is to provide medication guidelines specific to the Home and Community... [Read the rest of this article...] Posted in: Consultations
21 Future of Tax: Submissions Background Paper NZNO seeks your input on ways to improve the current tax system to inform future developments in tax and ensure tax works for the wellbeing of New Zealanders. It is an opportunity to have input on how tax could work for public health concerns such as income inequality, living... [Read the rest of this article...] Posted in: Consultations
21 Guidelines for nurses on the administration of medicines, 2018 FEEDBACK DUE: Please send feedback to sueg@nzno.org.nz by April 9th 2018 Following the first round of consultation late in 2017, and feedback from Dr Jill Wilkinson these guidelines (see the table of changes below) warrant another brief consultation. Please consider these changes as you read... [Read the rest of this article...] Posted in: Consultations
16 Micro-credentials in New Zealand’s education and training system NZNO seeks your feedback on NZQA’s proposal to recognise micro-credentials, alongside other qualifications, from July. Micro-credentials are usually smaller than a qualification and recognise a defined set of skills and knowledge by an industry or community. Read or download:... [Read the rest of this article...] Posted in: Consultations
16 Delivering the Pharmacy Action Plan NZNO seeks member feedback on this Plan and new funding model intended to give: “communities equity of access to different types of pharmacist services, in different ways and places, which are tailored to individual need. This means that some services in future could be provided outside... [Read the rest of this article...] Posted in: Consultations
15 Education Amendment Bill NZNO seeks member feedback on this bill regarding its impact on nursing education including: a requirement that the councils of tertiary institutions and councils of polytechnics have at least one elected permanent member of staff and at least one elected student and its support of... [Read the rest of this article...] Posted in: Consultations
9 Child Poverty Reduction Bill NZNO welcomes your feedback on this Bill. Its intent is to help achieve a significant and sustained reduction in child poverty and to enhance the overall wellbeing of children. The purpose of this bill is to: encourage a focus on child poverty reduction, facilitate political... [Read the rest of this article...] Posted in: Consultations
7 Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Amendment Bill 2018 NZNO seeks member feedback on the above bill which aims to provide: better visibility of decisions about practitioner practice greater recognition of the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration and co-operation better workforce information. We strongly recommend that you... [Read the rest of this article...] Posted in: Consultations
6 Employment Relations Amendment Bill This Bill aims to restore key minimum standards and protections for employees, and to implement a suite of changes to promote and strengthen collective bargaining and union rights in the workplace. NZNO welcomes your feedback on this bill. Please find a link to a description of the bill... [Read the rest of this article...] Posted in: Consultations
2 Reclassification of influenza vaccine – RN supply Following an objection raised by the Royal New Zealand of College of General Practitioners (RNZCGP), the Medicines Classification Committee is reconsidering its recommendation to amend the current classification for influenza vaccine to include registered nurses. (See Item 5.1.1 MCC Agenda... [Read the rest of this article...] Posted in: Consultations
21 Proposed changes to the Pharmaceutical Schedule Rules NZNO is seeking feedback on proposed changes to the Pharmaceutical Schedule Rules, making them easier to find, use and apply, including: tidying and consolidating the existing hospital and community schedules, and developing practical resources to assist interpretation of key rules.... [Read the rest of this article...] Posted in: Consultations
10 Misuse of Drugs (Medicinal Cannabis) Amendment Bill This Bill seeks to amend the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975 to: introduce an exception and a statutory defence for terminally ill people to possess and use illicit cannabis and to possess a cannabis utensil; provide a regulation-making power to enable the setting of standards that... [Read the rest of this article...] Posted in: Consultations