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Sutton, Carolyn Joy

Below is the registration information for this doctor.

Doctor's details

Name

Sutton, Carolyn Joy

Status

Practising

Qualifications

MB ChB 1990 Auckland
Bachelor of Medicine Bachelor of Surgery
University of Auckland, New Zealand
FRNZCGP 2002
Fellow of the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners
Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners, New Zealand

District

Auckland

Practising certificate

from 1 March 2017 to 28 February 2019

Conditions

None

General scope

27 February 1991

Provisional scope

15 March 1990

Scope of practice

General

Vocational

  • General Practice (4 April 2003)

Dr Sutton is required to participate in an approved recertification programme relevant to the vocational scope of General Practice.

Dr Sutton may work outside the stated vocational scope but must do so within a collegial relationship.

Definitions of scopes

General

A doctor who has completed the requirements of a provisional general scope will be registered within a general scope of practice.

Examples are doctors who have completed their first post-graduate year and may be in vocational training, doctors who have not started, or have chosen not to do, vocational training or doctors nearing retirement who are no longer meeting the requirements for registration within a vocational scope of practice.

The doctor must establish a professional collegial relationship with another doctor who is registered within the same or related vocational scope, and must participate in appropriate continuing professional development to maintain and improve competence and to be recertified each year.

Vocational

A doctor who has completed his or her vocational training as a consultant and has appropriate qualifications and experience can be registered within a vocational scope of practice.

A doctor registered in a vocational scope must participate in an approved continuing professional development programme to maintain competence and be recertified each year.

General Practice

General Practice is an academic and scientific discipline with its own educational content, research, evidence base and clinical activity, and a clinical speciality orientated to primary care. It is personal, family, and community orientated comprehensive primary care that includes diagnosis, continues over time, is anticipatory as well as responsive.

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