Information about the data in this dashboard

Your dashboard includes information on:

All ‘earner’ and ‘potential earner’ status injury claims that have received a medical treatment in the latest reporting period – ie where you invoiced ACC for a consultation / treatment or provided a medical certificate to a patients who had an injury claim with ACC, except for:

• • patients whose ACC claim is classified as a serious injury,

• • or any patients being treated by ACC as a long-term service claim, 

The reporting period is the most recent 3 month period and the same period last year.

Patients whose claims are defined as serious injury claims tend to be those who have a tetraplegia or paraplegia, a moderate or severe brain injury, an incomplete spinal cord injuries or an injury that is comparable to these diagnoses.

Patients classified as a long-term service claims are those who have been assessed as unlikely to achieve vocational independence prior to reaching the NZ Superannuation qualifying date.

The data has been segmented to allow for you to compare different cohorts:

• • Work type – Sedentary work, light work, medium work, heavy work ,very heavy work and where work type has not been stated – these definitions should be familiar to you through the certification process.

• • Injury type – we have aggregated all actual diagnoses used into five main injury groupings. 1) Sprains and strains, which includes soft tissue injuries, sprains, strains, ligamentous injuries,  2) Fractures and dislocation, 3) Concussion, 4) Punctures, stings and Lacerations, and 5) all other diagnoses.

• • Age bands – 0 to 18, 19-35, 36-50, 51-65 and 65 plus.  The age band is based on the client’s age as at the end of the latest reporting month.

• • Ethnicity – ACC uses total response ethnicity for this data. This means that if a patient identifies as Māori and Pacific , they will be counted in both Māori  and Pacific selections.  The default should be the ‘total’ option which refers to all ethnicities.

• • The regional comparisons used for this data set are based on Health New Zealand’s District Health Board regions.

Where overlapping dates have been received on medical certificates (e.g. one med cert may go from 1 June 2025) to 14 June 2025 and one med cert is from 7 June to 21 June 2025 the total duration used for analysis is 1 June to 21 June.  When looking at distribution of days on medical certificates however, both of these medical certificates would be classed as 14 days duration.

Information on medical certification is based solely on where you have issued the medical certificate. 

Information on weekly compensation durations is based on where you have issued at least one medical certificate for that patient during the period of weekly compensation. The total weekly compensation days paid will include periods of incapacity signed off by others if others have issued a medical certificate on the same claim.  Likewise information on medical certificates you signed for a patient would be included in the weekly compensation durations in the reports of others where both you and they had signed off a period of incapacity on the claim.

This data is subject to change as records, such as weekly compensation, medical certificates, and payments can be back-dated. This means that if you review results that you printed on a previous date, the results for the same period, may be slightly different.

The comparator group is based on the aggregated data of all General Practitioners (GPs) and Nurse Practitioners (NPs) who have been authenticated to receive this dashboard.  Data from GPs and NPs who have not been authenticated is not included.