Salesa Jenny; Tisch LindsayJENNY SALESA (Labour—Manukau East): I would like to talk about the new Part 5A of this bill. It actually gives a new definition to nurse practitioner". The new definition in amended section 2 of the Medicines Act inserted by clause 42B specifies that it means someone who "… is deemed to be registered with the Nursing Council of New Zealand [under] the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003" as a nurse "whose scope of practice permits the performance of nurse practitioner functions; and (b) holds a current practising certificate". I agreed with my colleague Louisa Wall when she stated earlier on that this legislation would probably allow for more innovative models and delivery of services and care especially for Māori and Pacific providers. We look forward particularly to seeing how that model of care develops. This Government talks a lot about innovative care and it does talk about new models of care and we believe that this legislation will allow some of that to actually come through and be developed. A lot of our health workforce works very long hours. They have to do much more with much less. We know that a survey of doctors that has come out recently—they surveyed just over 3000 doctors—revealed just how overworked our doctors are. Many of them reported that they work 16-hour shifts and some of them for 12 consecutive days. Nearly 300 of our doctors reported falling asleep particularly when they drove home. Some of them say that they must actually take a nap before getting on the road. We believe that this legislation allowing our nurse practitioners to assist should actually help out with ensuring that our doctors especially our junior doctors do not work such long shifts—such long hours. It is not in the interest of safety—not for our doctors and our health workforce and most definitely not for our patients either. Our health workforce deals with life-and-death situations and when they are overtired it affects the patients it affects our families and it affects us as a society. Nurses and GPs deal with much more complex issues right now and they deal with a lot of specialist assessment that they then have to send back to their GPs. It was a year ago that we first debated this bill in this House. We know from our health workforce and particularly our nurses that they have been frustrated with just how long this legislation has taken to get to this stage. Labour is very supportive of this bill and we look forward to its passage. Thank you.Part 1 agreed to.Part 2 agreed to.Part 3 agreed to.Part 4 agreed to.Part 5 agreed to.Part 5A agreed to.Part 6 agreed to.Part 7 agreed to.Schedule 1 agreed to.Schedule 2 agreed to.Clause 1 agreed to.Clause 2 agreed to.The Committee divided the bill into the Accident Compensation Amendment Bill (No 2) the Burial and Cremation Amendment Bill the Children Young Persons and Their Families Amendment Bill (No 2) the Holidays Amendment Bill (No 2) the Land Transport Amendment Bill (No 3) the Medicines Amendment Bill the Mental Health (Compulsory Assessment and Treatment) Amendment Bill and the Misuse of Drugs Amendment Bill (No 2) pursuant to Supplementary Order Paper 230.Bill to be reported without amendment presently.The CHAIRPERSON (Lindsay Tisch): Just to explain why we are having to go back into the House—when we moved into the Committee we moved into Committee for only three Committee stages and we have gone beyond that so now we have to go back to be recommitted to a Committee stage. So that is the process.House resumed.The Chairperson reported the Education Legislation Bill with amendment the Building (Pools) Amendment Bill with amendment the Health Practitioners (Replacement of Statutory References to Medical Practitioners) Bill without amendment and that the Committee had divided it into eight bills.Report adopted."