Acting under delegated authority from the Minister of Health, I, John Crawshaw:

1. revoke the approval of the Whanganui District Health Board Alcohol and Drug Service and medical practitioner issued pursuant to section 24(7)(a), (b) of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975 on 7 March 2014 (as published in the New Zealand Gazette, 13 March 2014, No. 29, page 830); and
2. specify the Whanganui District Health Board Alcohol and Drug Service as a service that may provide treatment with controlled drugs for people who are dependent on controlled drugs, pursuant to section 24(7)(b) of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975, at the following place:

   1. Whanganui Base Hospital
      Community Mental Health Building
      Heads Road
      Whanganui 4501; and

3. pursuant to section 24(7)(a) of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975, specify Dr Patrick Myles O’Connor, as a medical practitioner, who may:
   1. prescribe, administer and supply controlled drugs for the treatment of dependence, as the lead clinician for Whanganui District Health Board Alcohol and Drug Service;
   2. authorise in writing service/clinic medical practitioners as specified under section 24(2)(b) of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975 to:
      1. prescribe, administer or supply controlled drugs for the treatment of dependence:
      2. authorise in writing general practitioners receiving clients from Whanganui District Health Board Alcohol and Drug Service as specified under section 24(2)(d) of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975; and
   3. authorise in writing general practitioners receiving clients from Whanganui District Health Board Alcohol and Drug Service as specified under section 24(2)(d) of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975.

Conditions

1. Controlled drugs may only be prescribed, administered or supplied to people who are or have been clients of Whanganui District Health Board Alcohol and Drug Service.
2. This approval expires on 31 December 2020.

Dated at Wellington this 14th day of December 2017.

Dr JOHN CRAWSHAW, Director of Mental Health, Director of Addiction Services, Ministry of Health.