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Surgical services — Hawke's Bay
Elective surgery for Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora Hawke's Bay is provided by surgical services at Hawke's Bay Fallen Soldiers' Memorial Hospital — elective surgery is planned surgery (not needed immediately).
Contact us
Contact the surgical team on 06 878 8109 extension 4735 and 4773.
Contact the General Surgical, Vascular and Plastics Outpatients team on 06 878 8109 extension 6948 or 6359.
Where to find us
Surgical services is at:
Hawke's Bay Fallen Soldiers' Memorial Hospital
398 Omahu Road
Camberley
Hastings 4120
General Surgery, Vascular and Plastics Outpatients Department is at:
Puawānanga Building
Hawke's Bay Fallen Soldiers' Memorial Hospital
Gate 8 Orchard Road
Camberley
Hastings 4120
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Services we provide
Elective surgery at Hawke's Bay Fallen Soldiers' Memorial Hospital is provided to the people who need it the most and will benefit the most, compared with people with similar conditions.
How the elective surgery process works
First make an appointment with your healthcare provider to find out if you need to see a public hospital specialist for further assessment, and whether this is the best option for you.
Specialist assessment
If your healthcare provider refers you to a public hospital specialist, we will send you a letter telling you whether or not you have been given an assessment appointment. The decision is made on the information sent to us by your healthcare provider.
At your appointment, you and the specialist can talk about whether you would benefit from surgery. If you would get benefit from surgery and you want to go ahead with it, your name is sent to the surgical waiting list for consideration.
If your initial letter does not offer an assessment appointment, your healthcare provider can discuss other options with you.
Surgical waiting list
The urgency of your surgery is prioritised and the hospital sends you a letter telling you if you have been accepted onto the surgical waiting list.
We depend upon you letting us know, as soon as you can, if you do not want or cannot have your surgery when it is booked — so we can let someone else have their surgery.
If publicly funded surgery is not available to you (based on your level of need), the hospital sends you a letter telling you that you are not on the waiting list.
Tell your healthcare provider of any changes
Your healthcare provider is advised of your situation and continues to care for you. If your condition gets worse, it is important you see your healthcare provider again. They will let the specialist know your condition has changed so your condition and priority for surgery can be reviewed.
If you are considering cancelling your health insurance, we advise you to discuss this with your whānau and healthcare provider.
If you are very ill and require emergency, life saving surgery, you will be treated immediately.
Why we need to prioritise patients
As the population in Aotearoa New Zealand ages and new treatments and surgical techniques improve, the demand for elective surgery increases.
More people can have operations like hip or other joint replacements at a much older age and more complex surgery is available. This has increased the types and amount of surgery possible compared with only a few years ago.
To help manage the demand for elective surgery, more and more work is going into streamlining our services so as many people as possible can have their surgery.