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Faster, easier registration for overseas-trained doctors to enter Aotearoa New Zealand’s medical workforce

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In this edition, we continue the conversation about the future of health workforce regulation and how we can shape a more responsive, patient-centred system. We provide an update on the regulation of physician associates and share progress on developing a new collegial peer support and supervision framework for International Medical Graduates.

As part of ongoing work to ensure that registration policies are fit for purpose and enabling, Council is reviewing its orientation, induction and supervision guide. The current guide has been in place for several years. With the evolving nature of supervision, now is an appropriate time to review and revise it.

The Medical Council of New Zealand (the Medical Council) welcomes the Government’s review of the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003 (HPCAA and the opportunity to respond to the consultation document Putting Patients First—modernising health workforce regulation.