Election 2017 - Party Policies - Health - ACC
27th May 17, 9:41am
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Accident Compensation Corporation
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- Ensure all people who have a genuine work-related gradual process injury, disease or infection, including occupational overuse injuries and chemical poisoning, can obtain ACC cover.
- Vocational Independence Assessments are reoriented so that their primary purpose is to help claimants plan how best to return as much as possible to their pre-injury life.
- Revoke requirements of co-payments.
- Put the emphasis back on obtaining the best outcome for clients, rather than the best financial outcome for ACC.
- Create an independent ACC Ombudsman and the opportunity to have past abuses of individual rights independently investigated.
- Read more here.
- Maintain ACC as a publicly administered and delivered social insurance scheme which provides comprehensive and universal personal injury coverage for all New Zealanders.
- Make the ACC system fairer and more transparent for claimants, by implementing the findings of the Dean report.
- Relieve legislative restrictions to allow for fairer compensation and better rehabilitation.
- Focus on health and safety programmes and long-term injury prevention strategies.
- Ensure effective implementation of the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 and strengthen the Act as required, including enhancing the role of workplace representatives.
- Read more here.
- Advocate for a much greater commitment from ACC into responding to the deep impacts of sexual and domestic violence.
- Read more here.
- ACC is investing $31 million over four years to support new and existing initiatives aimed at preventing falls and resulting injuries.
- Reducing ACC levies by around $2 billion a year since 2012.
- Read more here and here.
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