Our new Workforce Survey Report shows encouraging growth — 20,530 practising doctors. Nearly half are women (49.6%), and representation of Māori and Pacific doctors is growing among younger doctors. Get the full Workforce Survey report [ here ]
Whakahaumaru i te iwi whānui, whakatuarā te kounga o te tikanga rata.
We protect the public and promote good medical practice.
The Medical Council of New Zealand |Te Kaunihera Rata o Aotearoa today released the results of its 2025 Workforce Survey, showing continued growth, more diversity, and important shifts in the medical workforce.
The Medical Council has today launched Torohia – Medical Training Survey for New Zealand, a new survey designed with the profession, for the profession, to better understand doctors’ experience of postgraduate training.
It is important that we understand the composition and changes in our medical workforce, so that good planning decisions can be made. This pack brings together the key data that matters most.
Faster, easier registration for overseas-trained doctors to enter Aotearoa New Zealand’s medical workforce
Torohia – Medical Training Survey for New Zealand – is here! Doctors in training voices matter. Let's make sure they're heard. Visit the Torohia website to find out more and download the promo kit to help spread the word! https://www.torohia.org.nz/
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.
