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Residential Care and Disability Support Services Act 2018

Needs assessment

29: Procedure for needs assessment

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When you apply for a needs assessment under section 27(1), Health New Zealand must arrange for the assessment to happen as soon as possible. The date of your needs assessment is the date written on the assessment. If you are having a needs assessment, the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers' Rights applies to you, which means you have certain rights as a consumer of the service.

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Part 5Needs assessment

29Procedure for needs assessment

  1. If Health New Zealand receives an application under section 27(1), it must arrange for the needs assessment to be conducted as soon as practicable.

  2. The date of a person's needs assessment is the date shown as such on the assessment.

  3. For the purposes of a needs assessment (and, in particular, consent to a needs assessment), the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers' Rights (made under section 74 of the Health and Disability Commissioner Act 1994) applies as if—

  4. the needs assessment were a service; and
    1. the person assessed were a consumer of that service; and
      1. Health New Zealand or its delegate were a provider of that service.

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        • Section 29(1): amended, on , by section 104 of the Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Act 2022 (2022 No 30).
        • Section 29(3)(c): amended, on , by section 104 of the Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Act 2022 (2022 No 30).