Regulating the health workforce is essential to ensuring that health practitioners are qualified, competent and provide safe care.
The Government is reviewing how we can modernise health workforce regulation to better support patients and providers. The focus is on how changes to regulation can improve efficiency while maintaining safety and public confidence.
A discussion document titled Putting Patients First: Modernising health workforce regulation was developed by the Government and feedback was sought between 28 March and 30 April 2025.
Analysis of these views is provided in four main sections:
- views on patient-centred regulation
- views on streamlined regulation
- views on right-sized regulation
- views on future-proofed regulation.
Submissions we had permission to publish are available on the Health Consultation Hub.
Publishing information
- Publication date
- Citation
Ministry of Health. 2025. Putting Patients First: Modernising health workforce regulation: Summary of submissions. Wellington: Ministry of Health.
- HP number
- 9133
- Copyright status
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Owned by the Ministry of Health and licensed for reuse under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence.
