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		<title>System failure</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 03:41:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Off the Couch: Kyle MacDonald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was always taught not to raise the topics of politics, sex or money unless you wanted to start an argument.  Todays policy announcement about free long term contraceptives for beneficiaries from National raises all three. But why are people so concerned?  John Key seems keen to reassure us it is all optional: “Mr Key [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Legal row over ACC blogger</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 07:55:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Off the Couch: Kyle MacDonald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article appeared on the Stuff website on Sunday the 15th, 2012. &#160; A senior medical officer in ACC&#8217;s sensitive claims unit has made legal threats to a blogger who posted information about his employment history, in the wake of a mass privacy breach. Peter Dodwell, the branch medical advisor of the unit that deals [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ACC adviser&#8217;s shaky past</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 07:50:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Off the Couch: Kyle MacDonald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article appeared in the New Zealand Herald on Sunday the 15th of April, 2012 &#160; The medical adviser for the ACC sensitive claims unit left two previous jobs amid controversy. Dr Peter Dodwell resigned as principal medical officer for the Civil Aviation Authority after a report found an unacceptably high error rate in decisions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ACC Sensitive Claims Provider and Client Survey: Results</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 06:11:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Off the Couch: Kyle MacDonald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of you who were kind enough to participate in the survey posted here in a previous blog, I thought you might be interested in seeing the results. &#160; Click this link to download a PDF copy of the summarised results: Online survey results for public release &#160; I think they speak for themselves.]]></description>
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		<title>Insuring our future</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 00:17:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Off the Couch: Kyle MacDonald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hate insurance.  Always have.  Seems like the biggest rort in the history of the Universe.  I give you money, and you give some of it back to me if some pre-agreed bad thing happens.  And if I do claim, you charge me more. It is a necessary evil, but it bugs me.  I think [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blow your own whistle</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2012 22:06:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Off the Couch: Kyle MacDonald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There has been a flurry of commentators and even the Minister for the ACC Judith Collins lining up to blame Bronwyn Pullar for her her actions, and suggest that she has not behaved responsibly. Whistleblowers usually have to go through hell and back.  We even have laws in this country to protect them.  And don’t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where there&#8217;s smoke&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 23:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Off the Couch: Kyle MacDonald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When all this ACC carry on about Sensitive Claims kicked off in 2009, and I started this blog, I had no idea that three years later I’d still be banging on about the problems and difficulties claimants and professionals encounter. I’ve become one of those people who have become embattled with ACC, albeit for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Survivors&#8217; trust in ACC at rock bottom</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 07:05:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Off the Couch: Kyle MacDonald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friday, 16 March 2012, 4:23 pm Press Release: New Zealand Association Of Psychotherapists Survivors&#8217; trust in ACC at rock bottom 16th March, 2012 ACC has once more shown its lack of understanding of the needs of survivors of sexual abuse. Whilst it is clear that the privacy breach this week of 6000 individuals&#8217; private health [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is there a doctor in the house?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 08:48:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Off the Couch: Kyle MacDonald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[25/03/12 Update: This blog post has been edited from it&#8217;s orginal after legal counsel for Dr. Dodwell expressed concerns about the impact of this blog post on his ongoing professional reputation. &#160; Today&#8217;s announcement that ACC has managed to send information about 9000 6000 clients, including allegedly 250 137 Sensitive Claims clients, has been described [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ACC Sensitive Claims Provider and Client Survey</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:25:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Off the Couch: Kyle MacDonald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last step of the Independent Clinical Review of the ACC Sensitive Claims Treatment Pathway is nearly upon us, namely the 18 month follow up review.  As part of that process representatives of the various professional bodies will be meeting with Barbara Disley, the review&#8217;s lead author in late March to discuss how ACC are [...]]]></description>
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