Created by OTBNZ News on 17/11/2010

The Occupational Therapy Board of New Zealand (OTBNZ) is seeking feedback on how occupational therapists manage and interpret boundaries to their scope of practice.  You are invited to provide your views, comments, and suggestions on the Practice Boundaries for Occupational Therapists: a Guide for Practitioners (Draft).

The changing and demanding health and social care arenas require practitioners to be flexible in meeting the needs of patients/clients. Increasingly, employers require practitioners to take on new and developing ways of working. Practitioners also want to adapt their practice to meet these challenges, and to foster new and expanding roles.

The purpose of this consultation is to indicate whether the guidance the OTBNZ proposes to make available is of value, relevant, and supportive to practitioners and employers.

The OTBNZ will use the consultation responses to amend or change its guidance given to practitioners.  Subsequent policy development may result from the consultation.

Consultation will be undertaken for a period of six weeks.

The return date for responses is Friday 31 December 2010. Responses can be made in the following ways:
1. By completing the web submission form
2. By post to: Occupational Therapy Board of NZ, PO Box 10202, Wellington 6143
3. By fax to: 04 9184746
4. By email to: enquiries@otboard.org.nz. 

The OTBNZ will record and keep confidential all information it receives on the consultations.

Feedback following the consultation period will be available on the OTBNZ website under latest news and events section. Information will also appear in the OTBNZ newsletter.

Thank you.

Andrew Charnock
Chief Executive