{"id":687694,"date":"2026-06-06T09:44:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T09:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/687694\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T09:44:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T09:44:16","slug":"all-six-members-of-psychotherapists-board-resign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/687694\/","title":{"rendered":"All six members of Psychotherapists Board resign"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Therapist<\/p>\n

\nPhoto: 123RF\n<\/p>\n

All six members of the country’s Psychotherapists Board have resigned.<\/p>\n

The board’s role, according to its website, is to ensure psychotherapists are qualified, competent and fit to practise.<\/p>\n

Do you know more? Email kate.green@rnz.co.nz<\/p>\n

A Ministry of Health spokesperson told RNZ the ministry had been looking into the governance of the board since 2025.<\/p>\n

“We can confirm that all six board members have resigned and the ministry is currently assessing potential candidates to reconstitute the board,” they said.<\/p>\n

For now, its core functions would be performed by its operational staff with oversight from the Ministry of Health.<\/p>\n

A bill which would affect the board’s governance was introduced to Parliament on May 18, and was currently awaiting its first reading.<\/p>\n

The Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Amendment Bill<\/a> would amend the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003, with the aim to “better align health workforce regulation with patient needs, health system policy, and Government priorities”.<\/p>\n

Regulators would be subject to accountability and directive requirements, similar to Crown agents.<\/p>\n

A ministerial committee would also be established, with the power to review an authority’s decision to refuse a practitioner’s registration and certain decisions relating to scopes of practice.<\/p>\n

Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: 123RF All six members of the country’s Psychotherapists Board have resigned. The board’s role, according to its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[943,3011,97,259,260,3,2294,3010,3008,3009],"class_list":["post-687694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-news","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}