Treatment profiles are guides to the treatment and rehabilitation services ACC expects a practitioner to provide to a client for a particular injury. They describe current ‘good practice’ and what outcomes should be achieved.
About treatment profiles
Treatment profiles are not rigid prescriptions; they are intended to provide flexibility and choice in clinical judgement according to patients' individual circumstances. However, when treatments and their outcomes are outside the limits described in the profiles, you may need to get ACC approval for any further treatment.
Treatment profiles have been developed for 150 common injury types. A range of medical providers, including general practitioners, physiotherapists, sports physicians and medical specialists, have developed the profiles. ACC is able to provide a provider performance monitoring service benchmarked for each treatment profile.
Download treatment profiles
ACC579 Treatment Profiles 2001 (PDF 2.5M)
ACC4593 Nursing Treatment Profiles May 2008 (PDF 2.7M)
Physiotherapy Treatment Profiles 2000 (PDF 1.4M)
ACC1032 Chiropractic Treatment Profiles 2003 (PDF 808K)
ACC2361 Acupuncture Treatment Profiles May 2006 (PDF 1.2M)
Last updated: 20 February 2009