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Communications approach The Council employs a range of strategies to engage and communicate with stakeholders. Face-to-face engagement Face-to-face engagement remains an important means of communication with all stakeholders, particularly nurses and employers. The Chief Executive and members of the senior management team regularly meet with key stakeholders including: • the Minister of Health • the Chief Nurse of the Ministry of Health • the New Zealand Nurses Organisation • the New Zealand Qualifications Authority • Nurse Educators in the Tertiary Sector • the College of Deans • directors of nursing and nurse leaders • professional associations that represent nurses • other health regulatory authorities. They also regularly meet directly with nurses and students of nursing throughout the country. The Council actively pursues engagement with nursing regulators around the world in order to learn, share best practice and benchmark its performance. This is a strategic goal for the Council, and more information on these activities can be found on page 20. Website The website, as the Council’s primary channel of communication with stakeholders, aims to be an easily navigable, user-friendly source of information that lets any visitor see what the Council has been doing or is doing. It has become the primary resource for information about nursing regulation in New Zealand. During the 2016-2017 year there were more than 831,000 visits to the website. Of these visits, 67% were from New Zealand, 5% were from the Philippines, 5% were from India and the remaining 23% were from the rest of the world. The news section of the website ensures important announcements and information from the Council are readily accessible. In the last year 14 posts were made covering a wide range of subjects. Digital communications The Council’s digital communications programme works in alignment with its website strategy, both alerting stakeholders to new online content and communicating directly with them. Update, the Council’s e-newsletter for nurses, was emailed directly to nurses four times during the year. It was also available online. Print publications The Council retains a print publications programme for documents with a longerterm shelf life and wide audience interest across stakeholder groups. Publications in the past year included: • 2016 Annual Report, the organisation’s key publication, which gives readers an easily accessible overview of the Council’s role, responsibilities and work. It is also downloadable from the website • The Nursing Cohort Report 2016, which tracks two cohorts of New Zealand graduates and internationally qualified nurses • reprints of the Code of Conduct and Guidelines: Professional Boundaries. Nursing demographics visualised in online ‘atlas’ The Council created an online tool to make demographic data about nurses and nursing more accessible and interactive. Demand for data has been increasing and the new online ‘atlas’ makes it easier and faster for nurses, employers, workforce planners, educators and the public to access and view nursing workforce statistics directly, and whenever it suits them. The data corresponds to that in the Council’s regular workforce publications. Visitors can navigate the data using a range of indicators including nurse numbers; age and gender; hours worked; area of practice; scope; qualifications; country where the nursing qualification was received; and ethnicity. 62 | The Nursing Council of New Zealand
Corporate Functions Information systems The online renewal of annual practising certificates (APCs) was fully embedded during the year. By the end of March 2017, 99.25% of APCs had been renewed online, with 100% of new graduates making their applications online. Work continued to support internationally qualified nurses (IQNs) to make their application online. Human resources During the year all human resource policies and employment agreements were reviewed to ensure these were compliant with the new legislation. At the end of March 2017 the Council employed 34 permanent staff and 3.88 part-time permanent staff. Health and Safety With the implementation of the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 the Council undertook a compliance review of the premises and business practices and developed reporting formats. Finance and risk During the year the Council undertook a costing review of all the services it provides to ensure fees are charged on a cost-recovery basis. The outcome of this review was that no fees would be increased. Year-end accounting The Financial Statements of the Council have been prepared in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Practice in New Zealand (NZ GAAP). They comply with Public Benefit Entity International Public Sector Accounting Standards (PBE IPSAS) and other applicable financial reporting standards, as appropriate, that have been authorised for use by the External Reporting Board for public sector entities. For the purposes of complying with NZ GAAP, the Council is a public sector public benefit entity and is eligible to apply Tier 2 Public Sector PBE IPSAS on the basis that it does not have public accountability and is not defined as large. The Finance and Audit Committee The Committee scrutinises the financial accounts, reviews and maintains financial systems, and considers the Council’s finance and management policies. The Committee met 10 times in 2016-2017 to: • consider the annual budget and table this with the Council for final approval • liaise with external auditors about the final year-end accounts • consider monthly financial reports and annual accounts • monitor the collection of debt • continually analyse all areas of risk to the Council and report on the same • consider related policy. Members of the Finance and Audit Committee Patricia Seymour (Convenor) Catherine Byrne Conway Powell Jo Ann Walton Annual Report 2017 | 63
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