Pursuant to section 24 (7) (a) of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975, I, David George Chaplow, acting under delegated authority from the Minister of Health, specify that
Dr Vicki Anne Martin, Selwyn Street Medical Centre, 316 Selwyn Street, Spreydon, Christchurch
is a medical practitioner who may prescribe, administer or supply controlled drugs for the purposes of that section, with the following conditions:
(a) The prescription of controlled drugs for the treatment of dependence is limited to patients registered at Dr Martin’s practice who have been assessed as requiring substitution treatment for opioid dependence by a gazetted opioid substitution treatment service; and
(b) Dr Martin’s authorisation of other medical practitioners to prescribe controlled drugs for
the treatment of opioid dependence is limited
to designated locums working in her practice.
Those medical practitioners authorised by Dr Martin may only prescribe controlled drugs for the treatment of opioid dependence to patients registered at Dr Martin’s practice, and may only do so
with Dr Martin’s written permission.
Dated at Wellington this 19th day of May 2005.
DR DAVID CHAPLOW, Director of Mental Health.