Pursuant to section 24(7)(b) of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975, I, John Crawshaw, acting under delegated authority from the Minister of Health, specify the Northland District Health Board Opiate Substitution Treatment Service as a service that may provide treatment with controlled drugs for people who are dependent on controlled drugs, at the following places:
Kaitaia Community Mental Health & Addiction Service Kaitaia Hospital
Redan Road
Kaitaia 0410; and
Bream Bay Medical Centre
Shop 22
Ruakaka Town Centre
Marsden Point Road
Ruakaka 0116; and
Mid North Community Mental Health
& Addiction Service
5 Dickerson Street
Kaikohe 0405; and
Te Roopu Kimiora
1956 State Highway 1
Kaiwaka 0573; and
Community Mental Health & Mental Health Service
North Team
5 Three Mile Bush Road
Kamo
Whangarei 0185; and
Kerikeri Medical Centre
4 Homestead Road
Kerikeri 0230; and
Dargaville Hospital
Awakino Road
Dargaville 0310.
And, pursuant to section 24(7)(a) of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975, acting under delegated authority from the Minister of Health, I specify
Dr Charles Alistair Scott Dunn
as a medical practitioner, may:
(a) prescribe, administer or supply controlled drugs for the treatment of dependence to controlled drugs as the lead clinician for Northland District Health Board Opiate Substitution Treatment Service;
(b) authorise in writing service/clinic medical practitioners as specified under subsection (2)(b) to:
(i) prescribe, administer or supply controlled drugs for the treatment of dependence:
(ii) to authorise in writing general practitioners receiving clients from Northland District Health Board Opiate Substitution Treatment Service as specified under subsection (2)(d); and
(c) authorise in writing general practitioners receiving clients from Northland District Health Board Opiate Substitution Treatment Service as specified under subsection (2)(d).
Conditions
1. Controlled drugs may only be prescribed, administered or supplied to people who are or have been clients of Northland District Health Board Opiate Substitution Treatment Service
2. This approval expires on 31 December 2017.
Dated at Wellington this 7th day of March 2014.
DR JOHN CRAWSHAW, Director of Mental Health.