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A4.30 Factors considered when determining acceptable standard of health (26/07/1999)
See A4 Effective 28/11/2005

The three main areas to be considered by the consultant physician in evaluating the applicant's (and any accompanying dependants') standard of health, and whether or not they will be a burden on the health services of New Zealand, are:
? the condition and prognosis of the applicant
? the resources required for care
? the availability of the required resources.
In each of these areas several factors are considered, as outlined below.

A4.30.1 Condition and Prognosis
Under this heading, the following factors may be considered:
a. the disease/disability and the stage of the disease/disability, including symptoms;
b. the treatment and likely duration of symptoms;
c. the probable quality of life, and/or functioning;
d. life expectancy;
e. the likely course of disease (eg, remission periods, increasing disability over time, etc).

A4.30.5 Resources required for care
The resources required for care are likely to include the following:
a. hospitalisation/treatment;
b. the likely frequency of hospital admissions;
c. the need for immediate treatment;
d. the need for ongoing secondary/tertiary/specialist care;
e. the availability and need for ongoing medication or high cost medication;
f. ongoing management and/or treatment required;
g. support services likely to be used and frequency of use; ie:
i. primary services (GP, home nursing, other health professionals, etc),
ii. community health services (home help, meals on wheels, day care, forms of relief care, etc),
iii. specific disability support services (appliances, residential care, etc).

A4.30.10 Availability of the required resources
Factors relating to the availability of resources needed by the applicant may include the following:
a. whether the type of condition is treated in New Zealand, or managed in New Zealand;
b. whether the hospital-based care services required are restricted to certain levels of clinical need (eg, elective surgery) or are unlikely to be supplied in New Zealand;
c. whether other treatment/investigation/management required is clinically restricted (eg, specialist-only pharmaceuticals);
d. whether any other health support services required have waiting times or are not available immediately or restricted according to clinical urgency, or there are other resource constraints.

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Medical Waivers
A4.60 Medical waivers (applicants for residence)
See A4 (before 28/11/2005)
a. Applicants for residence in New Zealand who are assessed as not having an acceptable standard of health and whose applications meet all other requirements for approval under the relevant Government residence policy may be considered for the grant of a medical waiver unless:
i. they require dialysis treatment, or an Immigration New Zealand medical assessor has indicated that they will require such treatment within a period of four years from the date of the medical assessment; or
ii. they have active pulmonary tuberculosis; or
iii. they have severe haemophilia; or
iv. they have a physical incapacity that requires full time care.
b. Medical waivers will also not be granted to people:
i. who are applying for residence under Family category policy; and
ii. who were eligible to be included in an earlier application for residence as the spouse or partner of a principal applicant or the dependent child of a principal applicant or their spouse or partner; and
iii. were not declared on that earlier application.
c. People who:
i. were eligible to be included in an earlier successful application for residence as the spouse or partner of a principal applicant or the dependent child of a principal applicant or their spouse or partner; and
ii. who were declared in that application but were not included in that application as non-principal applicants; and
iii. whose application for residence under Family category policy is sponsored by a person included in the application for residence referred to in (i) above
will be assessed for the grant of a medical waiver as if they had been included in the earlier application and as if the sponsor was not resident in New Zealand.
d. Applicants (and dependants included in their application) who have been recognised as refugees may be granted medical waivers.

Sorry I'm just slinging all this info on here, but I'm working against time with a cyclone bearing down on me.