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Introduction

The Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003 (HPCAA):

  • requires the Medical Council to ensure that doctors are competent to practise.

The Medical Council helps medical practitioners to maintain their competence and performance by requiring all doctors to participate in continuing professional development (CPD) by:

Only if a doctor has participated properly in CPD will he or she be issued with a new annual practising certificate (APC). This is called recertification.


      

Medical Council of New Zealand - Phone: 0800 286 801 - Email: mcnz@mcnz.org.nz

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