Pursuant to section 32 of the Health and Disability Services (Safety) Act 2001 ("the Act"), the Director-General of Health designates Verification New Zealand Limited
("the auditing agency") to audit the provision or likely future provision of the following kinds of health care services:
Hospital Care (as defined in section 4 (1) of the Act)
Residential Disability Care (as defined in section 4 (1) of the Act)
Rest Home Care (as defined in section 6 (2) of the Act)
This designation is subject to the following conditions:
1. The auditing agency must ensure that where it audits the provision of health care services for people with
a mental illness, intellectual, physical, psychiatric or sensory disability, a past or present consumer of these services must fully participate in all aspects of the audit.
2. The auditing agency must inform the Ministry of Health immediately by way of written notice if
there is any change to their accreditation status with JAS-ANZ.
This notice revokes in its entirety the notice that first designated Verification New Zealand Limited, pursuant to section 32 of the Health and Disability Services (Safety) Act 2001, published in the New Zealand Gazette, 12 September 2002, No. 135, page 3626.
This designation will expire on 30 March 2007.
Dated at Wellington this 30th day of March 2004.
KAREN O. POUTASI, Director-General of Health.