Information about the management, referral and assessment guidelines

Guidelines

The Ministry of Health has removed the guidelines for Primary Care Management; Patient Referral and Management; and Access Criteria for First Specialist Assessment from this website.

These guidelines have not been reviewed for a number of years and are considered to be potentially out of date.

Alternative sources of guidelines are the NZ Guidelines Group (http://www.nzgg.org.nz) or the relevant professional college.

Work is currently being undertaken with district health boards and the relevant professional organisations to agree hosting arrangements for Guidelines for Criteria for Clinical Priority Assessment (CPAC). Links to CPAC guidelines will be posted on this page as hosting arrangements are agreed.

New Zealand practitioners may request an archived version of one of these guidelines from the Ministry. Requests for an archived guideline must advise of your clinical background, the reasons why the archived guideline is required and specify the guideline for which access is requested.

In the interim, if you would like to request a copy of any of the CPAC Guidelines please email your request to the Elective Services Team: elective_services@moh.govt.nz