Senior doctors and dentists at Health NZ public hospitals and health services plan to strike for 48 hours on Tuesday 23 September and Wednesday 24 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 strike and will continue to operate as normal.
About the strike
Social work — Canterbury
Social workers help patients, whānau and carers with emotional, psychological, social and practical needs.
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Contact us
To contact the social work service at Christchurch Hospital, phone: 03 364 0420
To contact the social work service at Burwood Hospital, phone: 03 383 6882
Where to find us
We have social work services at Christchurch and Burwood Hospitals.
Services we provide
Our social workers:
- advocate for people to make sure their rights, responsibilities and entitlements are respected
- help patients and their whānau or carers to adjust to changes resulting from a health condition or disability
- connect people with community services and assistance.
They can help you and your whānau with:
- grief and loss
- the effects of hospitalisation
- adjusting to a newly-diagnosed condition or disability
- traumatic births
- pregnancy options
- trauma (accidents, amputations, acute illness)
- stress and mild anxiety
- family and carer issues, including vulnerable children and adults
- frequent admissions due to lack of social support
- isolation as a result of health issues.