CONSULTATIONS & SURVEYS

We welcome your feedback on these consultations and public feedback documents so we can maintain the high standards for which New Zealand’s psychology profession is respected. Your responses are valuable in helping to shape our future, our processes and the way we practice.

Consultation on Proposed Changes to Other Fees – Now Open

The Board is consulting on proposed changes to a range of functions other than the Annual Practising Certificate (APC).

These include registration, scope of practice applications, programme accreditation, and related functions.

Following a review of costs, the Board is proposing to move to 100% cost recovery to ensure fees fairly reflect the actual time and resources to deliver each function.

Most proposed changes are modest, with larger adjustments limited to complex or resource-intensive areas such as overseas registration, vocational scope applications, and accreditation reviews.

Practitioners and stakeholders are invited to provide feedback by Friday 5 December 2025.

Full details and a summary of the proposed fee changes are available on the HERE.

Submissions can be emailed to .

Psychology Assistant

Previously known as Assistant/Associate Psychologist (AP)

This consultation is now closed. Thank you to those who provided submissions.

Associated Documents

• Health NZ Role Description
• Health NZ Update – 05 March 2025
• Health NZ Update – 19 March 2025
• Allen & Clarke Feasibility Report

Updates

• 28/03/25
• Consultation Notification – 05/05/25
• Letter to Minister Doocey – 09/05/25
• Press Release – 20/08/25
• Consultation Report
• Consumer Survey Analysis
• Supervision Survey Analysis
• Psychology Assistant – Scope, Title, Competencies and Supervision Requirements

Health Workforce Regulation and HPCA Act review

• NZPB Submission
• Joint RA Submission

Proposed Framework for Scopes of Practice

This consultation is now closed. Thank you to those who provided submissions. We are currently reviewing the submissions we received. We will publish the updated statement once we finish this review.

Please click HERE for the feedback analysis report.

The NZPB acknowledge the work of the Psychology Scope Advisory Group (PSAG) and the Collaborative Reference Group (CRG) for their work commencing the process in reviewing psychology scopes of practice. PSAG were tasked with reviewing consultation feedback, reviewing literature and international comparisons concluding in the development of three options for the Board to consider.

The report can be viewed HERE.

Code of Conduct & Code of Ethics

This consultation is now closed. Thank you to those who provided submissions. We are currently reviewing the submissions we received. We will publish an update once we finish this review.

NZPB APC Fee/Levy

This consultation has now closed. Thank you to those who provided submissions. The consultation outcome document can be viewed by clicking HERE

Please click HERE to view the Gazette notice.

Raka Maui

This consultation has now closed. Thank you to those individuals who took the time to read and respond to the consultation document on its 2023 proposal to introduce Raka Maui: A cultural competency programme for all newly registered overseas trained psychologists.

This re-consultation ran from 1 December 2023 to 30 January 2024, proposing a cultural competence programme for all newly registered overseas trained psychologists.

A total of 447 responses were received. This represents a response rate of nearly 9.77% for the total workforce emailed at the time of consultation.

Based on the responses, the outcome determined by the Board is to proceed with a small test group.

Please click HERE for the Raka Maui Expression of Interest document.

Artifical Intelligence Guidelines

This consultation is now closed. Thank you to those who provided submissions.  The updated guidelines can be viewed by clicking HERE.