Notice Type
Departmental
Notice Title

Approval of Bay of Plenty District Health Board Addiction Service and Clinician to Provide Substitution Treatment Under Section 24 of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975

Pursuant to section 24(7)(b) of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975, I, John Crawshaw, acting under delegated authority from the Minister of Health, specify the Bay of Plenty District Health Board Addiction Service as a service that may provide treatment with controlled drugs for people who are dependent on controlled drugs, at the following place:
Tauranga Hospital
Kowhai House
Cameron Road
Tauranga 3112.
And, pursuant to section 24(7)(a) of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975, acting under delegated authority from the Minister of Health, I specify
Dr Susan Mackersey
as a medical practitioner, may:
(a) prescribe, administer or supply controlled drugs for the treatment of dependence to controlled drugs as the lead clinician for Bay of Plenty District Health Board Addiction Service;
(b) authorise in writing service/clinic medical practitioners as specified under subsection (2)(b) to:
(i) prescribe, administer or supply controlled drugs for the treatment of dependence;
(ii) to authorise in writing general practitioners receiving clients from Bay of Plenty District Health Board Addiction Service as specified under subsection (2)(d); and
(c) authorise in writing general practitioners receiving clients from Bay of Plenty District Health Board Addiction Service as specified under subsection (2)(d).
Conditions
1. Controlled drugs may only be prescribed, administered or supplied to people who are or have been clients of Bay of Plenty District Health Board Addiction Service.
2. This approval expires on 31 December 2015.
Dated at Wellington this 7th day of March 2014.
DR JOHN CRAWSHAW, Director of Mental Health.