Our February newsletter has been emailed to all registered physiotherapists.

You can access it online by clicking here.

The Physiotherapy Board wish to advise that at its February Board meeting, appointments for Chairperson and Deputy Chairperson were made as follows:

• Janice Mueller, Chairperson; and
• David Baxter, Deputy Chairperson

We regularly field questions from practitioners about the cost of complaints and the disciplinary levy so we thought we’d put a brief together that shows the what, why and how about complaints over the last few years. You can read the full document here.

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The Board has signed off on two new standards – Adverse event reporting, and Physiotherapists giving advice about medication:

• Adverse event reporting
• Physiotherapists giving advice about medication

These join our other standards in setting a minimum requirements for conduct and competence for the profession.

The decision document implementing these standards is here.

The Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal has published its decision following a hearing held at Christchurch in July 2019, and concerning a charge laid by the Director of Proceedings against Mr Peter William Chum, then a physiotherapist practising in Christchurch.

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The Board and Secretariat staff wish to warmly congratulate our Deputy Chairperson Professor David Baxter on being awarded the Fellowship of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, based upon contributions to research in the profession.

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On 04 – 05 June 2019 the Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal (HPDT) considered a charge laid by the Professional Conduct Committee against Mr Michael Evans physiotherapist of Gisborne (the physiotherapist).

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