NZNO nurses, healthcare assistants and some midwives plan to strike from 7am to 11pm on Tuesday 2 September and 7am to 11pm on Thursday 4 September. Patient safety is our priority and our hospitals will remain open. Continue to attend all appointments unless we have contacted you directly to reschedule.
Industrial action — Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Oraexternal link
National Public Health Service — Te Mana Ora is responsible for preventing illness and disease, protecting population health, and promoting wellbeing and hauora.
It works alongside the communities of Canterbury, South Canterbury, West Coast and Chatham Islands to achieve pae ora (healthy futures).
Dental care is free for tamariki and rangatahi until they turn 18.
You should enrol your pēpi with your local community oral health service at birth or as soon as possible after that. Your midwife or nurse will be able to help you to enrol. The service is free and supports you and your whānau to care for the teeth of your tamaiti.
Caring for your child's first teeth
The South Canterbury Child nutrition and oral health promoter works with the community to create environments that promote good oral health from an early age, including:
Public health Canterbury runs a toothbrushing programme in Canterbury education settings.
Dentistry in Canterbury — Healthpointexternal linkexternal link
Dentistry in South Canterbury — Healthpointexternal link
Dentistry in West Coast — Healthpointexternal link
For guidance on early childhood centre health assessments visit the Health New Zealand website.
Early childhood centre health assessmentsexternal link
Keeping your centre healthyexternal link
The National Public Health Service (NPHS) wants to improve the health and wellbeing of the people by supporting them to become more physically active.
NPHS — Canterbury and West Coast is a member of Active Canterbury. Their site lists local groups, clubs or classes for activities and gives information about parks, tracks and facilities.
Active Canterburyexternal link
We work with key stakeholders to make sure our urban areas are active environments designed to promote physical activity, by having:
One of the easiest ways to incorporate physical activity into your life is to walk or cycle for everyday transport.
Cycling Action Networkexternal link
Disabled Persons Assemblyexternal link
Living Streets Aotearoaexternal link
RAD Bikes (Recycle a Dunger)external link
The Equally Well project aims to reduce physical health disparities between people who experience mental health and addiction problems and people who do not.
The Five Ways to Wellbeing, Ētahi ara e rima ki te ngākau ora, help people stay mentally well.
Five Ways to Wellbeing — Mental Health Foundationexternal link
Healthy Active Learning is a government programme that delivers education and health outcomes for tamariki and rangatahi across Aotearoa New Zealand.
Healthy Active Learningexternal link
School travel plans provide safe options for tamariki travelling to and from school, and have the following benefits:
NPHS — Canterbury and West Coast develop these plans together with school communities and local councils.
A healthy home is important for the health and wellbeing of individuals, whānau and communities. external linkNPHS — Canterbury and West Coast works towards better housing outcomes for everyone to improve health and wellbeing.
Healthy homes — Canterbury and West Coast
LinKIDS helps connect families to health services in the Canterbury region.
All preschool tamariki in Aotearoa New Zealand are eligible to receive certain publicly funded health services. Your tamariki may be eligible for a variety of health services such as:
Health NZ has a number of initiatives that aim to address these health needs throughout New Zealand and Canterbury and the West Coast.
The National Public Health Service works to improve Māori and Pasifika health outcomes and reduce inequities by:
We also work:
Kaupapa Māori — Healthpointexternal link
Pacific people — Healthpointexternal link
Māori health — Health NZexternal link
Māori models of health — Health NZexternal link
Pacific health — Health NZexternal link
Ao Mai te Rā: The Anit-Racism Kaupapa — Ministry of Healthexternal link
Our infectious disease process, including when you need to send an urgent notification are on the Health NZ website.
Notify National Public Health Service - South Island | Te Waipounamuexternal link
To notify public health of a hazardous substance or environmental health issue, either:
Public health nurses provide free health services to tamariki in primary and intermediate schools.
School public health nursingexternal link
Health resources for schools and kuraexternal link
Find out the training and authorisation requirements to become an authorised vaccinator.
Authorised vaccinatorexternal link
The National Public Health Service is responsible for:
Full information about National Public Health Service and what they do is on the Health NZ website.
You can contact us by:
National Public Health Service contact form — Canterbury and West Coast
8am to 5pm, Monday to Friday.
8am to 5pm, Monday to Friday.
8:30am to 5pm, Monday to Friday.
8:30am to 5pm, Monday to Friday.
Canterbury street address:
Directions to Canterbury public health office — Google Mapsexternal link
Canterbury postal address:
Mid Canterbury street address:
Directions to Mid Canterbury public health office — Google Mapsexternal link
South Canterbury street address:
Directions to South Canterbury public health office — Google Mapsexternal link
South Canterbury postal address:
West Coast street address:
Directions to West Coast public health office — Google Mapsexternal link
West Coast postal address:
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 Commissionerexternal link
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.
