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  • Dentists and dental specialists

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      • Proposed changes to prescribed qualifications consultation submissions
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      • Updated sedation practice standard consultation submissions
      • Consultation on the 2017/18 draft budgets, annual practising certificate (APC) fees, disciplinary levies and other fees submissions
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      • Patient records and privacy of health information practice standard submissions
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      • Consultation on 2018/19 budget, APC fees and disciplinary levies, and other fees submissions
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      • Consultation on 2019/20 draft budget, fees and levies submissions
      • Consultation submissions on the age limit for restorative activities in the oral health therapy scope of practice
      • Consultation submissions on a Naming Policy under the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003
      • Consultation submissions on proposed changes to scopes of practice and prescribed qualification
      • Consultation submissions on proposed 2020/21 budget, fees and levies
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      • Australian consultation submissions on the joint Australia and New Zealand accreditation standards
      • Consultation submissions on professional working relationships and hygiene scope changes
      • Consultation submissions on proposed budget, APC fees and disciplinary levies
      • Consultation submission - follow-up working relationships
      • Consultation submission - professional competencies
      • Consultation submission - 2022/23 budget and fees
      • Consultation submissions -COVID-19 supplementary
      • Consultation - FINAL competencies consultation appendices
      • Budget 23/24 consultation submissions
      • Consultation - DRAFT competencies consultation appendices
      • Consultation submissions - Ireland recognition
      • Budget 24/25 consultation submissions
      • Consultation on proposed Naming policy changes
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      • Consultation submissions - 2025/26 budget, APC fees and disciplinary levies, and other fees
    • Annual reports
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  • Updates

    • 2020
      • New graduate registration applications
      • Patient Patient records and privacy of health information practice standardecords and privacy of he
      • Orthodontic auxiliaries and dental assistants – staying safely in sight and in scope
      • New Zealand accreditation committee established
      • Update on novel coronavirus
      • Ministry of Health, Dental Council and Professional Associations' joint statement: COVID-19 update
      • MOH and Dental Council joint guidance
      • Information for all health workers
      • Update on guidelines
      • Telehealth guidelines in dentistry
      • Alert level 3 guidelines for oral health practitioners
      • Update on COVID-19 pandemic response
      • Guidelines for COVID-19 alert level 2 - PROVISIONAL high-level principles
      • COVID-19, recertification, engagement update
      • ACC claim code: Dental Consultation by Telehealth for COVID-19
      • Update on resuscitation training requirements and responses during COVID-19, and ACC claim code
      • Progress update on alert level 2 guidelines
      • Alert level 2 guidelines issued
      • COVID-19 update: Gowns at alert level 2 and price setting
      • Dental Council update
      • Update on advertising practice standard, negative pressure rooms, WHOreference
      • Update on alert level 1 guidelines and Ministry of Health information for health workforce
      • Guidelines for COVID-19 alert level 1
      • Change to alert level 1 guidelines
      • Ministry of Health notice about face masks
      • Revision to joint alert level 1 guidelines
      • MOH and Dental Council joint statement
      • Extended waiver for prescribing
      • Outcome from joint Australia and New Zealand accreditation standards consultation
      • New Zealand moves to new COVID-19 alert levels
      • New Zealand COVID-19 alert levels announced
      • Prime Minister announces COVID-19 alert levels
      • New Zealand COVID-19 alert level 2 announced for Auckland
      • New Zealand COVID-19 alert level 2 announced for Auckland
      • New Zealand COVID-19 alert level 2 announcement for Auckland
      • COVID-19 alert level announcement
      • Auckland to move to alert level 1
      • Extended waiver for prescribing to 23 December 2020
      • Consultation on proposed changes to the working relationship requirements for oral health practitioners with dentists, and the practising conditions for dental hygiene activities
      • Further updates to joint alert level 1 guidelines
      • Update on Alert level 3 guidelines for oral health practitioners
      • New rules for electronic prescriptions to support virtual care in the community during COVID-19
      • COVID-19, APC fees, recertification etc
      • Consultation on proposed 2021/22 budget and fees
      • Treatment of tongue-tie in breastfeeding babies
      • Orthodontic working group report update
      • Accreditation update
      • Dental Council consultations open for feedback
      • NZDA Checkup
      • Office closing
      • Change to mouthwash requirements in COVID-19 guidelines
      • Waiver for prescribing extended to 22 March 2021
    • 2021
      • Person ID number changes for some practitioners
      • Auckland moves to COVID-19 alert level 3, rest of NZ to level 2, for three days
      • Auckland moves to COVID-19 alert level 2, rest of NZ to level 1
      • Auckland moves to COVID-19 alert level 1 from 11.59pm Monday 22 February
      • Consultation outcome on the 2021/22 budget, fees and levies
      • Auckland moves to COVID-19 alert level 3, rest of NZ to level 2, for seven days
      • Upcoming annual practising renewal
      • Treating patients who work at the New Zealand border or in a managed isolation or quarantine facility (MIQF)
      • Auckland moves to COVID-19 alert level 2, rest of NZ to level 1
      • Vaccinators
      • Chair/Deputy Chair appointments
      • Auckland moves to COVID-19 alert level 1 with the rest of NZ
      • COVID-19 symptoms updated in guidelines
      • Follow-up consultation on proposed changes to the working relationship requirements for oral health practitioners with dentists, and the practising conditions for dental hygiene activities
      • New process for assessment of overseas qualifications, training and experience from 1 April 2021
      • Workforce analysis report for 2018/19
      • Practitioner article: Getting it right before things go wrong
      • Update to COVID-19 alert level 1 guidelines
      • Notice of new recertification programme
      • COVID-19 vaccine and your professional responsibility
      • Wellington moves to COVID-19 alert level 2, rest of NZ remains at alert level 1
      • Wellington remains at COVID-19 alert level 2, with rest of NZ at alert level 1
      • Wellington joins the rest of NZ at alert level 1
      • Practitioner update – registration of interest as COVID-19 vaccinators
      • Follow-up consultation outcome on proposed working relationship requirements, and dental hygiene practising conditions
      • Growing cultural competence to deliver culturally safe care
      • Consultation on proposed updates to professional competencies and changes to related scopes of practice
      • Council membership changes and Working in Aotearoa NZ resource
      • New Zealand moves to alert level 4
      • Restored link to MOH guidance on fit testing of N95 masks
      • New Zealand remains at alert level 4
      • COVID-19 information for the public during alert level 4 lockdown
      • New Zealand remains at COVID-19 alert level 4, and guidelines updated
      • COVID-19 changes to Alert levels and level 4 guidelines
      • Ongoing COVID-19 alert levels
      • Update to COVID-19 alert level changes and updated guidelines
      • COVID-19 alert levels unchanged
      • COVID-19 update
      • COVID-19 alert level changes
      • COVID-19 guideline updates
      • MOH message: Testing requirements for workforce of permitted businesses operating under Alert Level 3
      • COVID-19 alert level change for parts of Waikato
      • COVID-19 related updates
      • Reminder to complete your current CPD requirements by 31 December 2021
      • Consultation on proposed 2022/23 budget, fees and levies
      • COVID-19 alert levels and vaccination
      • COVID-19 mandatory vaccination
      • Ministry of Health requirements on mandatory vaccination for health and disability sector workers
      • Announced alert level changes and change to alert level 3 guidelines - multi chair clinics
      • New graduate registration applications
      • Mandatory vaccination order and guidelines published
      • New link to MOH mandatory vaccination guidelines
      • Waikato moves to alert level 3, step 2
      • Upper Northland moves to alert level 3, MIQ places available for health and disability workers
      • Outcome from consultation on updating professional competencies and changing related scopes of practice for oral health professions
      • New recertification programme for oral health therapists, dental hygienists, dental therapists, orthodontic auxiliaries, dental technicians and clinical dental technicians
      • Ministry of Health update on vaccination
      • Consultation on the proposed supplementary risk management principles for oral health during the COVID-19 pandemic
      • Outcome from consultation on proposed supplementary risk management principles for oral health during the COVID-19 pandemic
      • Ministry of Health update on RAT and survey for dentists on prescribing
      • Office closure
      • Outcome from 2022/23 proposed budget and fee consultation
    • 2022
      • Boosters required under changes to mandatory vaccination orders
      • Wakaminenga Kaunihera Hauora Health Council
      • Critical services under the COVID-19 Close Contact Exemption Scheme
      • Voluntary bonding scheme 2022 opening soon
      • Extension to mandatory vaccination orders for boosters
      • Pause on new registration applications for assessment of individual qualifications and experience
      • Payment of annual practising certificates
      • COVID-19 Omicron – Red, phase 3 update
      • Dental Council elects new Chair and Deputy Chair
      • Results of Regulatory Authority Review 2021
      • Ministry of Health voluntary bonding scheme
      • COVID-19 – applying for a temporary medical exemption from mandatory vaccination
      • 31 March 2022 deadline
      • Dental Council annual report
      • Protection framework changes announced 23 March 2022
      • Minor updates to the COVID-19 supplementary standard
      • Free flu vaccines available for health and disability workers
      • Changes to the vaccination order
      • Update to patient screening questions for COVID-19
      • TMVI practice standard replaced by new “Blood borne viruses practice standard”
      • We have moved offices
      • Individual assessment registration pathway now open
      • Vaccine mandate changes for some health and disability workers
      • Upcoming professional peer confirmation for new recertification programme
      • Consultation on proposed addition of Haumarutanga ahurea/Cultural safety domain to dental specialist competencies for New Zealand
      • COVID-19 updates announced
      • Mask requirements in health service premises
      • Consultation on proposed 2023/24 budget and fees
      • Annual report 2021/22
      • Changes to MSD dental special needs grants
      • Message from the Chair
      • Te Hā – Māori Advisory Committee established
      • Professional Advisor Dexter Bambery retires
      • Adult restorative programme approved for Aotearoa New Zealand registrants
      • Haumarutanga ahurea | Cultural safety domain added to dental specialist competencies
      • Update on recertification programme
      • Registration of Aotearoa New Zealand 2022 graduates
      • Overseas practitioners registering in Aotearoa New Zealand
      • Upcoming medicine classification changes
      • The Therapeutic Products Bill
      • University of Otago Master of Community Dentistry Student Research Project
      • Outcome from 2023/24 proposed budget and fees consultation
    • 2023
      • Therapeutic Products Bill submission
      • Consultation on proposed recognition of Ireland Dental Council accredited dentistry programmes
      • Naming Notice - Dr Jacob Goldenberg
      • Update on guidance on advanced and new areas of practice
      • Local anaesthetic and adrenaline medicines reclassification changes approved
      • New radiography course for dental therapists and dental hygienists approved
      • Changes to the Radiation Safety Regulations
      • Consultation on the proposed Principles for quality and safe prescribing practice statement
        • Office closed on Monday 17 July 2023
      • Ireland accredited dentistry programmes now recognised in Aotearoa
      • Annual recertification programme for dentists and dental specialists
      • Changes to prescribing regulations
      • University of Otago postgraduate adult restorative dental care programme accredited
      • Workforce analysis report 2020 to 2022
      • Request for expressions of interest from practitioners
      • Consultation on proposed 2024/25 budget and fees
      • Consultation on proposed Naming policy changes
      • Recertification programme and policy update
      • Outcome of the 2024/25 budget and fees consultation
      • Accreditation reviews
      • Annual practising certificates (APCs)
      • Feedback survey coming soon
    • 2024
      • Auckland University of Technology Graduate Certificate of Health Science (Oral Health) programme accredited
      • Consultation on proposed end-date to some prescribed qualifications
      • English language requirements and tests policy update
      • Naming policy update
      • Save the date - Upcoming changes to Dental Council competencies and standards
      • Consultation | Infection prevention and control practice standard
      • Consultation on proposed 2025/26 budget and fees
      • Changes to meetings and webinars on competencies and standards
      • Prescribing principles released
      • Director-General of Health extends temporary authorisation for unsigned prescriptions
      • Outcome of consultation on proposed end-date to some prescribed qualifications
      • Christmas shutdown
      • Outcome of the 2025/26 budget and fees consultation
      • Outcome of the Infection prevention and control practice standard consultation
      • University of Otago undergraduate programmes accredited
    • 2025
      • Updates to the Council’s Restricted activities policy
      • Council Chair and Deputy Chair elections

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