Public Health services in Bay of Plenty and Lakes (Rotorua and Taupō)
5210 — Te Ara Hauora Tika | The Healthy Way to Go encourages tamariki and their whānau to make healthy choices every day that everyone benefits from.
Building Blocks has been developed to support early learning services to improve and sustain health and wellbeing. Each block represents a key aspect of hauora. This interactive tool aims to add value to your current way of working and complement existing structures and resources.
For guidance on early childhood centre health assessments visit the Health New Zealand website.
Early childhood centre health assessments
The aims of the '5 messages' are to simplify key health messages in the community, reduce hospitalisations for preventable diseases, promote the 0800 Healthline number to help improve access to affordable health advice.
Five messages to keep your family healthy
Hapū Hauora has been developed specifically by Toi Te Ora Public Health for whānau and hapū with input from Māori health staff, and a reference group consisting of active hapū and marae members who also work in the health sector.
Healthy Active Learning is a government programme that delivers education and health outcomes for children and youth across Aotearoa New Zealand.
Public health nurses provide free health services to tamariki in primary and intermediate schools.
Health resources for schools and kura
Find out the training and authorisation requirements to become an authorised vaccinator.
WorkWell is a free workplace wellbeing initiative which supports workplaces to ‘work better through wellbeing’.
The role of public health
The National Public Health Service is responsible for:
- monitoring environmental health and notifiable diseases
- preventing the spread of disease, including at our international borders
- promoting healthy eating and physical activity
- promoting safe environments and good health practices in early childhood centres, kōhanga reo, schools and kura kaupapa
- some health services for tamariki, such as screening, B4 School Checks, and tuberculosis (BCG) immunisation for at risk tamariki aged under 5 years old
- reviewing public health regulations and inquiring into applications for alcohol licences and the development of Local Alcohol Plans
- enforcing elements of the Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990
- guiding and enforcing public health plans, strategies and legislation.
Full information about National Public Health Service and what they do is on the Health NZ website.
Contact information
To contact National Public Health Service — Toi Te Ora:
- call (including after hours) 0800 221 555
- email BP-NPHSenquiries@tewhatuora.govt.nz
You can also fax us on:
- 07 306 0987 for Whakatāne
- 07 578 0883 for Tauranga
- 07 346 0105 for Rotorua and Taupō.
Office locations
Whakatāne
- Corner of Garaway and Stewart Streets
- Whakatāne
Tauranga
- Floor 1
- 510 Cameron Road
- Tauranga
Rotorua
- Floor 1
- 1166 Amohau Street
- Rotorua
How we manage and use your health information
National Public Health Service is involved in preventing and minimising the spread of infectious diseases. This can involve carrying out interviews with people who have or may have an infectious disease (cases), people at risk of catching an infectious disease from a case (disease contacts), or receiving or storing personal health information from other sources.
Your information is protected under the Health Information Privacy Code and other law.
The information collected during interviews, or through other means, will only be used to help prevent the spread of infectious illnesses and keep others safe.
Information gathered will be held by National Public Health Service which is part of Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora.
National Public Health Service may need to share the information gathered with others involved in controlling infectious diseases, such as your doctor or other health services. We will only share this information for the purpose of controlling the disease.
Some information may be made public, like any places and events you have been to. This is to help find people who may have had contact with you. Your personal information will not be shared publicly.
You can access your health information if you wish, and you can ask for it to be corrected if you think it is wrong or misleading.
You can direct any concerns about the privacy of your health information to your relevant health District Privacy Officer or the Office of the Privacy Commissioner.
Office of the Privacy Commissioner
The information we ask you for is important to controlling the spread of infectious diseases. If you do not provide that information, controlling these diseases may be more difficult. Sometimes, we can require you to supply us with the information under the Health Act.