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Transforming New Zealand’s health service
At Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora, our ambition is to provide quality, compassionate, affordable healthcare to all New Zealanders, at the right time and in the right place.
As an organisation, our goals are to:
- keep people well in their communities
- provide people with timely, quality and compassionate care
- ensure our staff are safe and supported to deliver that care
- achieve equity in health for all New Zealanders
- ensure the health system is resilient and supports quality health care delivery
- build towards healthy futures for all New Zealanders.
There is considerable work to do to achieve this, which is why we need a highly skilled, dedicated and professional health workforce to deliver exceptional care.
Te Pae Tata Interim New Zealand Health Plan 2022external link
Whakamaua: Māori Health Action Plan 2020-2025 — Ministry of Healthexternal link
We want our people to feel safe and supported at work
We focus on the health, safety, and wellbeing of our people.
We want our people to feel safe and supported at work
We focus on the health, safety, and wellbeing of our people.
Supporting you to find balance
We strive to offer flexible working practices and conditions that support a healthy work-life balance, including part-time and flexible working arrangements.
Health NZ is a proud member of Te Uru Tāngata Centre for Workplace Inclusion, an organisation dedicated to promoting diversity and inclusion.
Their tools and resources help us enhance cultural competence, fulfil equal employment opportunity obligations, and improve team dynamics and overall employee satisfaction.
Centre for workplace inclusion — Te Uru Tāngataexternal link
We are dedicated to building a team that is representative of the communities that we are serving
We are committed to supporting health equity in our communities.
Our kaimahi thrive on the diversity and inclusion of all perspectives and cultures, and we welcome applicants from all age groups, backgrounds, and cultures. We encourage applications from:
- Māori
- Pacific people
- disabled individuals
- members of the LGBTQIA+ communities.
How we work as an organisation
Health NZ funds and delivers health care services that span the continuum of care. Operating and improving the delivery of publicly funded health care services depends on close relationships with others.
Examples of services
Protection — Environmental and border controls, outbreak control and contact tracing
Promotion — Health promotion and education to address harmful alcohol consumption, smoking, poor nutrition, and lack of physical activity.
Prevention — Immunisation programmes and sexual health
Screening — Cancer screening (breast, cervical, and bowel), child health checks and antenatal screening
Diagnosis — Blood and tissue testing, radiology and other imaging
Care and treatment — Trauma care, oral health, reproductive health, mental health and addiction services, general medicine and general surgery, paediatrics, maternity, orthopaedics, ophthalmology, urology, end of life and hospice care.
Rehabilitation — Physiotherapy, audiology, occupational health, home based support, and aged redisentital care.
Public hospitals
Health NZ owns 86 sites with nearly 11,000 beds or bed spaces. These range from small health care clinics and sub-acute units, through to secondary and tertiary hospitals. Most health clinics offer primary and community health services. They may have inpatient beds for continuing hospital care or low-risk births and transfer emergency or complex patients to a secondary or tertiary hospital. We often partner with community organisations to deliver care in these clinics. Sub-acute units provide day surgery, lower-level diagnostics, day stay care, some inpatient surgery and some clinical support services.
Secondary hospitals cater for most of the local population’s health needs, offering 24-hour acute services and intensive care, planned surgery and care across a range of subspecialties. Our tertiary hospitals provide the greatest range of subspecialties and are staffed with ‘on-site’ rather than ‘on-call’ specialists. Across our sites over 60 service subspecialties are offered.
Primary care facilities are spread throughout New Zealand. These consist of GP practices, pharmacies and accident and emergency centres.
Te Nīkau Grey Hospital & Health Centre
Our regions
Health NZ is split into four regions: Northern, covering the north of the North Island, Te Manawa Taki, covering Waikato and the midland districts, Central | Ikaroa, covering the lower North Island and Te Waipounamu, covering the South Island.
Each region is focused on the priorities of its communities, and working closely with other government services and agencies.
To ensure services meet local needs, regional and local leaders are responsible for service delivery. This includes overseeing hospitals.
Our regions share best practice and health innovations, and together we aim to have nationally equitable health outcomes. Specific actions may differ in each region, but all have a strong focus on delivering better outcomes and fairer services for everyone.