Good afternoon Mr Lohr

This email is to acknowledge your request below asking for information
relating to alternative medicine advisors within ACC.
Your request has been referred to ACC's Government Services to respond
directly.

ACC is currently working on your request and will be in touch as soon as
possible.
You may be aware that the Official Information Act (OIA) states that ACC
has a maximum of 20 working days to respond to your request. Section 2
of the OIA notes that the days between 25 December and 15 January
(inclusive) are not included in the definition of "working days".
Therefore, as your email was received by ACC on
2 January 2014, ACC has until 13 February 2014 to respond.

Regards

Anna Mildenhall, Senior Advisor, Government Services, ACC

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-----Original Message-----
From: D Lohr [mailto:[OIA #1384 email]]
Sent: Thursday, 2 January 2014 7:28 a.m.
To: Information Website Mail
Subject: Official Information Act request - Diversity at ACC

Dear Accident Compensation Corporation,

Does ACC have any diversity in its medical decision-making? In
other words, while I am sure you have medical/GP advisors, do you
also have any "alternative medicine" advisors involved in
decision making, such as practitioners of Traditional Chinese
Medicine, or chiropractors?

If not, how would diversity be introduced into the ACC scheme,
internally, for medical decision making, to offer alternative
viewpoints from within the organization?

Who decides the level of diversity in medical advisory panels at
ACC, and how do they select medical advisors within the
organization, to make judgement calls as to effectiveness of
treatments?

Yours faithfully,

D Lohr

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Good morning Mr Lohr

Please find attached ACC's response to your request of 2 January 2014.

Regards
Anna Mildenhall

Anna Mildenhall, Senior Advisor, ACC

ACC cares about the environment - please don't print this email
unless it is really necessary. Thank you.

-----Original Message-----
From: D Lohr [mailto:[OIA #1384 email]]
Sent: Thursday, 2 January 2014 7:28 a.m.
To: Information Website Mail
Subject: Official Information Act request - Diversity at ACC

Dear Accident Compensation Corporation,

Does ACC have any diversity in its medical decision-making? In
other words, while I am sure you have medical/GP advisors, do you
also have any "alternative medicine" advisors involved in
decision making, such as practitioners of Traditional Chinese
Medicine, or chiropractors?

If not, how would diversity be introduced into the ACC scheme,
internally, for medical decision making, to offer alternative
viewpoints from within the organization?

Who decides the level of diversity in medical advisory panels at
ACC, and how do they select medical advisors within the
organization, to make judgement calls as to effectiveness of
treatments?

Yours faithfully,

D Lohr

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