Continued funding of Acupuncture and Chiropractic
Kevin McCready made this Official Information request to Accident Compensation Corporation
The request was partially successful.
From: Kevin McCready
Dear Accident Compensation Corporation,
I write following your OIA response of 11Feb2014 to Mr D Lohr. In that response you said Acupuncture and Chiropractic are funded by ACC as supplementaty to "normal medical management", and you said "not all modalities" of Acupuncture and Chiropractic are funded by ACC.
Can you please tell me:
1. what Acupuncture and Chiropractic "modalities" are funded and how these have been arrived at and other Acupuncture and Chiropractic modalities excluded?
2. upon what scientific evidence you continue to fund the modalities you fund?
3. who are the experts on Acupuncture and Chiropractic that you consult for assessment of this scientific evidence.
I am happy to be guided by you to consider modifying this request if necessary.
Yours faithfully,
Kevin McCready
From: Koleti Vae'au
Accident Compensation Corporation
Dear Mr McCready,
Please find attached ACC's acknowledgment of your request for information below.
Kind Regards
Koleti Vae'au, Team Manager, Government Services, ACC
Governance, Legal, Policy, and Research.
PO Box 242, Wellington 6140, www.acc.co.nz
ACC cares about the environment - please don't print this email unless it is really necessary. Thank you.
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From: Koleti Vae'au
Accident Compensation Corporation
Dear Mr McCready,
Please find attached ACC's response to your request for information below.
Kind Regards,
Koleti Vae'au, Team Manager, Government Services, ACC Governance, Legal, Policy, and Research.
PO Box 242, Wellington 6140, www.acc.co.nz
ACC cares about the environment - please don't print this email unless it is really necessary. Thank you.
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Mark Hanna left an annotation ()
A previous OIA request (https://fyi.org.nz/request/881-list-of-a...) received this as part of its response:
"With respect to processes and requirements for measuring effectiveness, Treatment Profiles have been developed for 150 common injury types. Treatment Profiles are guides to the treatment and rehabilitation services ACC expects a practitioner to provide to a client for a particular injury. They describe current 'good practice' and what outcomes should be achieved."
However, the ACC's Acupuncture Treatment Profiles document (http://www.acc.co.nz/PRD_EXT_CSMP/groups...) contains *many* more injuries than just those described as being supported by evidence in the response to this request.
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Kevin McCready left an annotation ()
The response was inadequate and I will submit another. In particular, the response did not address chiropractry at all.
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