Nurses at Health NZ public hospitals and health services plan to strike from 7am to 11pm on both Tuesday 2 September and Thursday 4 September. Emergency departments will be open for emergencies only.
GPs, after-hours and urgent care clinics, and other community health providers are not affected by the strikes and will continue to operate as normal.
Industrial action — Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Oraexternal link
The CADS consumer team works across all services to make sure the voices, interests and perspectives of people who are using or who have used CADS are included in our services.
Phone 09 815 5830external link
Phone 021 760 319external link
Phone 09 837 9420external link — direct dial
Email cadsconsumeradvisor@waitematadhb.govt.nzexternal link
Text or phone 021 241 6859external link
Text or phone 021 325 597external link
Text or phone 021 592 143external link
CADS thrives on client feedback and we always want to hear about people's experience of CADS so feel free to get in touch. Your voice counts.
'Consumer' is one of the terms used to refer to anyone with direct personal lived experience of problems caused by and associated with their use of alcohol and other drugs. Other terms that get used include client, lived experience, service user, tangata whai ora, tangata whai i te ora, and patient.
The CADS consumer team consists of a consumer advisor who works across all the services and 3 consumer liaisons working with individual teams:
The team makes sure the voices, interests and perspectives of people who are using or who have used CADS are included in activities such as:
We do this by providing pathways for people to share their thoughts and feedback about their experience of CADS through surveys, suggestion boxes and group evaluations.
We have downloadable information about our services and drug facts on the Health NZ website.
Community alcohol and drug service (CADS) resources — Health NZexternal link
