NZATS

The New Zealand Anaesthetic Technicians' Society - A body representing Anaesthetic Technicians' in New Zealand.

Anaesthetic Technicians are healthcare workers employed in the New Zealand health service. Anaesthetic Technicians work as a member of a multi-disciplinary team that includes doctors, nurses and support workers. The New Zealand Anaesthetic Technicians Society currently hold a voluntary register of members, but have been accepted as needing regulation as a profession by the Government under the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003.

Anaesthetic Technicians are involved with all aspects of the delivery of a patient's perioperative anaesthetic care.

Related links

• New Zealand Anaesthetic Technicians Society, New Zealand based Anaesthesia Assistants Society
• Australia & New Zealand College of Anaesthetists
• Association of Operating Department Practitioners (UK)