New Zealand Tertiary Council For

New Zealand Tertiary Council for

Physical Activity, Sport and Exercise (NZTCPASE)

Minutes of Meeting

University of Otago, Dunedin, 9 December 2014

Members: Greg Anson (Auckland), Doug Booth (Otago), Mike Hamlin (Lincoln), Sally Lark (SESNZ), Duncan McKenzie (SIT), Rich Masters (Waikato), Toby Mundel (Massey, Palmerston North), Mark Orams (AUT), Richard Pringle (Auckland)

In Attendance: Lisette Burrows (PENZ), Roger Wood (School Sport, and Expertise and Development Team, Sport New Zealand), Jo Colin (Young People Lead, Sport New Zealand)

Apologies: Sue Emerson (UNITEC), Jerry Shearman (CPIT), Kirsten Westwood (EIT)

1. Meeting commenced at 10.10 with members (re)introducing themselves and providing overviews and updates of their institutions and departments.

2. Minutes of the meeting 25 October 2013 (Doug Booth)

Approved: Greg Anson (Auckland); Seconded: Lisette Burrows (PENZ)

3. TCPASE News, Correspondence, Administration (Doug Booth)

Doug Booth reported no official correspondence received from, or sent to, kindred organizations.

3.1 Constitutional Amendments

Doug Booth distributed the TCPASE constitution to members in anticipation of a review at the 2015 meeting. In light of TCPASE’s development some clauses in the constitution seem ripe for discussion, viz.:

·  2. Representation from SESNZ, PENZ and CEPNZ

·  5.1 Officers to be expanded to include Publicity

·  5.2 Rewording to make clearer that officers holders can be re-elected

3.2 Website

Doug Booth reported that the TCPASE website has been updated to reflect the names and contact details of new members.

4. PENZ (Lisette Burrows)

Lisette Burrows reported on recent activities within PENZ including:

·  a successful annual conference in Christchurch attended by some 370 delegates

·  the appointment of a new CEO in early 2014

·  leadership and Te Aō (Māori games) workshops for teachers

·  a strong tertiary group within PENZ in which academic staff from New Zealand universities are working to define and redefine the concept of active physical education

·  ongoing efforts to meet with relevant National Party government ministers

·  ongoing efforts to address the poor state of physical education teacher education training

·  ongoing efforts to develop relationships with SNZ.

5. Sport, Physical Education, and Sport New Zealand (Roger Wood and Jo Colin, Sport New Zealand)

Roger Wood and Jo Colin provided members with a thorough overview of government policy changes in the sport sector over the last 15 years accompanying the shift from Labour to National, and the appointment of new National Ministers. Points noted by Roger and Jo included:

·  Labour encouraged mass participation in sport through targeted programmes, media campaigns, and links with the education sector

·  National embraces sport as social practice in its own right and as a social good; it focuses more on outputs than on programmes. This approach has resulted in i) centralization of high performance sport, ii) teachers of physical education and sport receiving fewer directives and less support, and iii) National Sports Organizations moving into school sport.

·  Sport New Zealand now finds itself in the position of not only having to restate the value of physical activity, but also re-determining what questions it will ask and what evidence it will use.

·  The provision of physical education in primary schools remains poor and SNZ believes such provision should be incorporated into a national plan aimed at enriching the physical experiences of young people

Members greatly appreciated the insights and both parties (TCPASE and SNZ) agreed to keep the doors open to further consultation and dialogue.

Action: Doug Booth to provide Jo Colin with contact emails of TCPASE members.

Members thanked Roger and Jo for their attendance.

6. SESNZ (Sally Lark)

Sally Lark reported on recent activities within SESNZ including:

·  SESNZ ran a successful conference in 2014 which was shared in part with Sport Medicine New Zealand along the theme ‘Exercise is Medicine’

·  In 2015 SESNZ will organise its annual conference as part of the Medical Science Week in Queenstown. SESNZ will also run workshops throughout the year aimed at upskilling Physical Education teachers

·  SMNZ and SESNZ are engaged in preliminary discussions with a view to combining into one organisation. Discussions are at an early stage with no guarantee that they will succeed or what form the final organisation might take.

·  The Medicine Programme Director of ACSM Exercise has contacted SESNZ with a view to collaborating around the accreditation of Clinical Exercise Physiology. ACSM is running and promoting an Exercise is Medicine credential

·  SESNZ is currently looking at its MoU with ECSS with a view to renewal

·  SESNZ has renewed its MoUs with BASES and ESSA

6. Clinical Exercise Physiology New Zealand (Greg Anson)

In the absence of Dean Rankin (UCOL and Chair CEPNZ) and Jeremy Shearman (CPIT and Secretary CEPNZ), Greg Anson provided an update on CEPNZ:

·  As of January 2013 CEPNZ exists an Incorporated Society in NZ and its Board includes members of TCPASE (Dean Rankin, Chair; Jeremy Shearman Secretary)

·  TCPASE would welcome CEPNZ representatives outlining their perceptions and plans for the future, and providing reports (as SESNZ and PENZ do) to the annual NZCTPASE meeting.

·  CEPNZ has made considerable progress:

o  CEPNZ has formed an Incorporated Society and has developed a DRAFT set of rules for the Society (October 2013)

o  Russell Simpson (Hutt Valley DHB and a member of the CEPNZ Board) has successfully negotiated with NZ DHBs for the recognition of Clinical Exercise Physiology as an Allied Health Profession

o  CEPNZ is open to individuals to be founding members, a status that entitles them to be informed of developments of the organisation but does carry any professional practice recognition, i.e., “founding” members are not by default “registered” members

o  Developed a DRAFT for consultation of “Standards to be met by Registered Clinical Exercise Physiologists in New Zealand” (October 2014)

·  A number of actions appear to need to occur before CEPNZ can initiate applications for “registered membership” and it would be useful to have an indication from CEPNZ of the timeline to implement these actions:

o  Finalise the CEPNZ Incorporated Society Rules

o  Hold an Annual General Meeting (as laid down in the draft rules of the society)

o  Receive submissions as part of the consultation on the “Standards…”

o  Agree on the “threshold” for “registered membership”

o  Agree on the levels of registered membership above threshold

o  Negotiate remuneration agreements with the Health System, ACC, Health Insurance Companies

o  Develop continuing education opportunities and requirements for maintaining professional standards

o  Develop a business model(s) for registered CEP professionals

Members thanked Greg for this useful update and look forward to CEPNZ members providing further information at the 2015 meeting.

In light of developments within SESNZ and CEPNZ, Greg Anson also raised some important points about Physical Inactivity as a noncommunicable disease, its impact on the health of society, and its relationship to Clinical Exercise Physiology as a profession in New Zealand:

·  Physical Inactivity (PI) is a noncommunicable disease (NCD) and has a mortality burden greater than that of smoking (5.3 cf 5.1 million deaths/year globally) (ref: Lee, et.al., 2012, Lancet, 380, 219-229)

·  Exercise as medicine is good for you and as an intervention should be considered as a viable alternative to, or prescribed alongside drugs (Naci and Ioannidis, 2013, British Medical Journal, 347, 1-14)

·  The Costs of Physical Inactivity: Toward a regional full-cost accounting perspective. Auckland Council, Waikato Regional Council, Wellington regional Strategy Committee – prepared by Market Economics Limited, February 2013. In 2010 the total cost of Physical Inactivity in New Zealand was $1.3 billion (just less than 1.0% NZ GDP – NZ statistics 2011)

·  Physical Activity is a beneficial treatment in preparation for, and recovery from, surgery, improving mental health and brain health and reducing the mortality burden of noncommunicable diseases. PA should be prescribed by professionals, preferably clinical exercise physiologists.

·  The DHB’s recognition of CEP as an Allied Health Profession is a significant positive step. A recent paper by Cheema et.al. (2014) (Sports Med, 44, 869-877) reported that there were 2327 Accredited Exercise Physiologists (AEP) in Australia in 2012 and that it took 7 years to establish the profession from the point at which AEPs were included as a profession in the Allied Healthcare Model (January, 2006). At present approximately 120 AEP positions are advertised in Australia at any one time. If the number of registered AEPs are put in the context of the population of Australia and translated to the predicted number of CEPs needed in NZ it would be between 700 and 800.

7. PBRF (Doug Booth)

Members reiterated the need to prioritise representation of Sport and Exercise Science on the Health Panel for the next assessment (2018). TCPASE would again nominate representatives and would immediately challenge the TEC / Chair of the Health Panel if its nominee/s were not selected.

Doug Booth advised that TEC is seeking feedback on the Development of Evidence portfolios. Copies of the feedback template and the consultation paper were distributed to members who agreed that TCPASE should make a submission as a strategy to keep the organization visible to TEC.

With regard to the Development of Evidence portfolios, the major change concerns the merging of the Peer Esteem and Contribution to the Research Environment into a single new category, Research Contribution consisting of up to 15 items (see Appendix 3, Consultation Paper) including two new descriptive categories: outreach and engagement (page 24) and uptake and impact (page 27).

Members agreed to provide Doug Booth with feedback by Monday 2 February (for submission to TEC by 11 February). ACTION Doug Booth

8. Election—Office Holders 2015

·  Doug Booth (Otago), President

·  Greg Anson (Auckland), Vice President

·  Richard Pringle (Auckland), Publicity Officer

The meeting closed at 3.10.

Next meeting: Auckland University (Tamaki Campus), Friday 27 November 2015 (hosted by Greg Anson)

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