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Speaker 1: Our CPI inflations out tomorrow officially for Q one, and

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Speaker 1: there's some suspicion that's starting to creep back up again.

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Speaker 1: We look to the supermarket the food prices yesterday three

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Speaker 1: point five. Is that a worry. We'll talk to the

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Speaker 1: supermarket shortly seventeen past seven. Now the physiotherapy folk, I've

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Speaker 1: got an idea to save us money this morning. They

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Speaker 1: want a minor law change that would allow them to

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Speaker 1: sign off patients to return to work. Currently, a GP's

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Speaker 1: got to do it. A Physiotherapy New Zealand president Kirston Davies, Well,

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Speaker 1: it's Kirston.

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Speaker 2: Morning to you morning Mike.

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Speaker 1: Is this old ancient thing where by physiotherapists aren't real

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Speaker 1: medicos and you've got a fake degree and so you

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Speaker 1: need somebody proper in the medical profession to do it all?

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Speaker 1: Is that where that comes from?

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Speaker 2: Well, we do have a four year degree, of course,

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Speaker 2: and it is within our scope of practice to sign

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Speaker 2: people to understake those medical certificates. So we're there ready

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Speaker 2: waiting to do that to reduce that bottle and we

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Speaker 2: can get people back to work in the timely fashion.

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Speaker 1: And that was all that would take, just a little thing.

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Speaker 1: You don't need to go back to a GP. A

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Speaker 1: physio can do it. That's all that's required to change it.

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Speaker 2: That's right. So that would be a legislation change at

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Speaker 2: the moment it mentions GP and nurse practitioners that just

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Speaker 2: need to add physiotherapists in there, but actually acc at

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Speaker 2: the moment could make an operational change and just and

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Speaker 2: allow that through the contracts that they had with us.

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Speaker 1: Why don't they You'd need to ask then that what

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Speaker 1: we are? See what it take me nine years to

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Speaker 1: get an answer Like every other government department operator going

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Speaker 1: in this country.

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Speaker 2: Mike, I have absolutely no comment on that.

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Speaker 1: It's the logic to it, and so I just don't

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Speaker 1: what would their argument be against you ticking the box

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Speaker 1: as opposed to a GP or a nurs practitioner.

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure. I don't know. You'd need to ask them.

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Speaker 2: We know that there's an issue there. New Zealand cannot

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Speaker 2: afford to have bottlenecks in our health system. We all

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Speaker 2: need to be working seamlessly at the top of our

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Speaker 2: scope together, you know, to ensure that we don't have

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Speaker 2: the bottom nex they cost the New Zaid and taxpayer millions.

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Speaker 2: They are disruptive to business. People need to get back

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Speaker 2: to work that disruptive to the patient. It's difficult and

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Speaker 2: it's unnecessary.

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Speaker 1: You raise a very good point, Kirstin, and I am

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Speaker 1: going to follow it because I've got Sammy. And Sammy's

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Speaker 1: job today is to ring ACC and there seems to

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Speaker 1: because I can tell you some stories about ACC. In fact,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure we could all tell each other stories about ACC.

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Speaker 1: They're in the whole once again financially and if they

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Speaker 1: can do something that's easy. So Sammy's job today is

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Speaker 1: to ring ACC up. Break through the barrier that unquestionably

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Speaker 1: will be put up in front of him by way

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Speaker 1: of a simple answer. Is Brian there, Hi, Brian, why

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Speaker 1: don't you do this? And Brian answers the question comes

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Speaker 1: back to us tomorrow. So what will now almost certainly

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Speaker 1: be a multi day operation while they fart around trying

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Speaker 1: to find some department or some person who hasn't taken

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Speaker 1: three extra days off between ANZAC day and we will

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Speaker 1: come back with the answer to see why they aren't

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Speaker 1: doing something about it, because that's what we do. Seven twenty.

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