Local Doctors clinics, and White Cross clinics offering GP care, all provide extensive services to manage minor injuries and accidents, such as cleaning and bandaging wounds, suturing wounds and removing stitches etc.
Most often when you have injured yourself quite badly you will first need to go to an urgent care clinic for immediate assessment and treatment. But, after that, you are best to visit your local doctor for ongoing management of the injury.
You can visit any of our clinics listed in the search field below for this kind of after care to manage your injuries. Non-accidental injuries may or may not be covered by ACC.
Did you know?
Accidental injuries include those more obvious ones from falls, or a car or work accident, but also from less obvious ones like a bite or scratch from an animal, person or insect, cooking burns or shaving cuts.
Any accidental injury that happens in New Zealand is covered by ACC, which means related healthcare services are provided at a reduced cost.
Your injury must be because of an accident. ACC won't cover things like illness, conditions from ageing and emotional issues.
If you’re unsure whether your injury is covered by ACC, please ask your clinic nurse or doctor.
If ACC accepts your injury was caused by an accident, they will decide how much of the ongoing management of that injury will be funded.
Your doctor visit may be subsidised if your injury:
- comes on gradually because of your work
- is a result of medical treatment
- is a result of sexual assault or physical abuse.
What is ACC?
ACC is a no-fault scheme that covers everyone, including visitors, who are injured in an accident in New Zealand. It includes events that result in mass casualties. The scheme covers children, beneficiaries, students, if you’re working, unemployed or retired.
No-fault cover means it doesn’t matter what you were doing when you were injured or who was at fault.
ACC cover helps pay for costs to get you back on your feet.
If you’re injured in an accident, make sure you see your doctor or health provider first. They can make a claim for you. Claims can be made up to 12 months after your injury. ACC may still consider claims made after this time if there’s a good reason for the claim not being made sooner.
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