Mark Laslett

ACC is a government mandated monopoly insurance company NGO, set up in 1974 by the Norman Kirk led Labour government. I had been in private practice for 2.5 years at the time and remember it well. I have had to deal with ACC ever since 1974. Here is the cirrent status. This is a copy and paste from a X (Twitter) post today February 11 2026. Today I received the regular ACC Update email. In it was the ACC Board chair's / CEO message: " The Board is committed to delivering on the Minister’s...

Just published: Lassen MR, Scarborough M, Gilchrist N, Tripathi SS, Price C, Horcajadas A, DeAndres J, Baranidharan G, Ahuja S, Otte KS  et al : Intradiscal linezolid (PP353) treatment for chronic low back pain associated with Modic change type 1: an international, first-in-human, randomised, sham procedure-controlled, double-blind, phase 1b clinical trial . eClinicalMedicine 2026, 0 (0).[1] Also, you should read a valuable lead-up paper by Lloyd Czaplewski et al. (2023)[2] These two papers...

Question put to X’s Grok December 6 2025 On review of the evidence over the last 50 years or more it seems that even in the 1970s, the prevalence of back pain was high, the costs to society in terms of disability and lost productivity was being signalled as a major problem. The rise if costs, direct and indirect seems to be rising exponentially.  My first question is: Is this consistent with the evidence you have available to you? The second question relates to that last 30 or 40 years of...