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ExerciseNZ calls for reform to ease health system pressures

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Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Thu, 6 Aug 2026, 3:43pm
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Politicians are being urged to pay more attention to our exercise workforce, as a way of easing health system demand.

ExerciseNZ is proposing all parties consider compulsory registration for exercise professionals, removing the fringe benefit tax from employer-supported exercise, and using exercise professionals to help with ACC rehabilitation. 

CEO Richard Beddie says they also want any future Government to make one-hour daily school exercise mandatory, and he joined the Afternoons team to explain further.

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