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.
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Needs Assessment Services Co-ordination (NASC) organisations are funded by Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora. Our role is to assess your eligibility for support services based on your needs. From the assessment, we may be able to allocate and co-ordinate support services for you. As a NASC agency, we coordinate the services but do not provide them.
To contact NASC for South Canterbury:
Needs assessment service co-ordination is about planning your care based on your goals and support needs.
When assessing your support needs, we use a range of tools from within the InterRAI series:
Following this, we may be able to allocate and co-ordinate support services to meet the needs we identify in the assessment.
We share information with everyone who helps care for you. We work collaboratively with you and your whānau. We can:
NASC works with people who have:
For older persons or disability needs, you can refer yourself to NASC for South Canterbury.
Referrals are handled through the Integrated Community Assessment Treatment Team (iCATT) using the contact details above.
If you have a mental health diagnosis, you will be under the care and management of a psychiatrist. Self-referrals to NASC cannot be accepted for mental health clients.
