Have your say: NZ Govt consult | Putting Patients First: Modernising health workforce regulation

The Aotearoa New Zealand Government is looking at ways to improve the regulation of the health workforce as part of its plan to ensure timely, quality access to healthcare for all New Zealanders. The way in which it regulate affects the timeliness and quality of healthcare.

Regulation can sometimes feel distant from everyday healthcare, but it has real impacts on the system’s ability to deliver for all New Zealanders. If regulatory settings are too rigid or complex, they can make it harder for the workforce to provide New Zealanders with safe, high-quality services, when and where they need them.

Opportunities include:

• Incorporating patient views and needs in regulation

• Making regulation more streamlined

• Providing for right-sized regulation

• Ensuring regulation is future-proofed.

Read discussion paper here.

The College will prepare a submission and is calling on members to share their perspective via this short survey.

The College will close its survey on 21 April 2025 in time to prepare our submission.

Share your perspective here.