The Board called for expressions of interest in 1984 for physiotherapists to be involved in a working party to review the registration requirement.
The Board called for expressions of interest in 1984 for physiotherapists to be involved in a working party to review the registration requirement. This was developed as the result of a DACUM type exercise and included wide consultation with the profession from 1985 to 1988.
The issue of making registration as a physiotherapist dependant on membership of the NZSP has been brought up many times, chiefly because members see the Society working on behalf of the profession while non-members benefit without paying any fees. It was first raised in September 1974, in 1975 the Physiotherapy Board said that if the Society wanted to make registration dependent upon Society membership, the Society should become the registering body[1]. Nelson physiotherapists raised the matter in October 1981 and seven Taranaki physiotherapists in February 1999. Because the Society is not the registering body membership of the Society cannot be compulsory; the concept has never been supported by Government.
[1] E/M 15-3-75
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