Story: Health practitioners

More links and websites

• Health and Disability Commissioner – Code of Rights

  This is a summary of health consumers’ rights.

• Medical Council of New Zealand

  The Medical Council registers doctors to practise in New Zealand and guides doctors’ medical practice.

• Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003

  This page on the Ministry of Health website explains how this legislation provides a framework for the regulation of health practitioners.

• Nursing Council of New Zealand

  The Nursing Council registers nurses to practise in New Zealand, and oversees nurses’ education and nursing standards.

More suggestions and sources

• Bryder, Linda, ed. A healthy country: essays on the social history of medicine in New Zealand. Wellington: Bridget Williams Books, 1991.
• Coney, Sandra, ed. Standing in the sunshine: a history of New Zealand women since they won the vote. Auckland: Penguin, 1993.
• Donley, Joan. Save the midwife. Auckland: New Women’s Press, 1986.
• Gage, Jeffrey D., and Andrew R. Hornblow. ‘Development of the New Zealand nursing workforce: historical themes and current challenges.’ Nursing Inquiry, 14 no. 4 (2007): 330–334.
• Ratima, Mihi M., and others. ‘Strengthening Māori participation in the New Zealand health and disability workforce.’ Australian Medical Journal 186 no.10 (2007): 541–543.