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Chair
Wendy Aldred KC, Stout Street Chambers
Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal: Historic Trends and Current Inquiries
- Insights derived from a comparative analysis between the most frequently disciplined health professions over 15 years: penalties, name suppression, criminal convictions, health impairments, and boundary violations
- Updates on new issues emerging from available 2024 HPDT decisions
- Current comparative research activity of the Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal, Teachers Disciplinary Tribunal, and the Lawyers and Conveyancers Disciplinary Tribunal, including penalty conditions
- Exploring the potential of a pan-professional disciplinary tribunal regime
Presented by Professor Kate Diesfeld, Law School, Auckland University of Technology, and Professor Lois Surgenor, Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Otago
Learning Objectives:
- Analyse historical and emerging trends in disciplinary actions by the Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal
- Explore cross-profession comparisons and the potential for a unified disciplinary tribunal model
Presenters
Professor Lois Surgenor, PhD, Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Otago
Lois is a Professor in Psychological Medicine at the University of Otago, Christchurch and the Health Sciences Divisional Associate Dean (Academic). She previously chaired a New Zealand regulatory authority (New Zealand Psychologists Board, 2002-2011) and the collective health regulatory authorities (Health Regulatory Authorities NZ, 2010-2013). She has researched disciplinary and health rehabilitation for 17 years, using quantitative/qualitative research designs. As a clinical psychologist, she has supervised disciplined practitioners who have been subject to supervision and educative penalties. Lois is the Co-Principal Investigator (with Professor K Diesfeld) on the Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Fund study “A rehabilitation model for professional discipline”.
Wendy Aldred KC, Stout Street Chambers
Wendy is an experienced trial and appellate lawyer with a longstanding interest in health law. Admitted to the Bar in 1995, Wendy worked in private law firms in New Zealand and England and at Crown Law before joining the independent Bar in 2007. Wendy acts for a wide range of public and private sector clients. Her work in health law has included acting as counsel in disciplinary proceedings in the HPDT, applications for judicial review, public inquiries and Coroner’s inquests.
Professor Kate Diesfeld, JD, Law School, Auckland University of Technology
Kate has held legal advocacy roles with disabled people in Alaska, California and England. She held, or holds, academic roles at Kent School (England), the University of Waikato (New Zealand) and Auckland University of Technology (New Zealand). She co-edited Involuntary Detention and Therapeutic Jurisprudence (2003) and Elder Law in New Zealand (2014). She is an Associate Editor of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, Fellow of the American College of Legal Medicine and Convenor of the Law Society’s Mental Health and Disability Sub-Committee. At Auckland Disability Law, she is a Steering Group member. She is Co-Principal Investigator on the Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Fund study, “A rehabilitation model for professional discipline”.
