NZNO nurses’ strikes planned for 2 and 4 September 2025
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.
Mental health and addiction support is available throughout Tairāwhiti. There is a full range of help including acute, inpatient and community services for you and your whānau.
An infant, child and young person focused service that helps to create a positive change in emotional, psychological and psychiatric health imbalances that impact wellbeing.
This service covers the Tairāwhiti district up to the Anaura Bay turnoff just north of Tolaga Bay. Ngati Porou Oranga covers the area from the Anaura Bay turn off up to the northern Tairāwhiti boundary.
At Te Whare o Te Rito we use a variety of approaches depending on the infant’s, child’s or young person’s emotional, psychological and psychiatric health needs such as:
counselling
various types of therapies
medication treatment
indigenous approaches such as Mahi-a-Atua.
Referrals
Referrals are processed through He Waharoa, Mental Health and Addictions service and can be made by:
yourself or by a whānau member
your healthcare provider
schools or tertiary education providers
agencies or services within our community
hospital services.
Te Whare Oranga is a service for whānau who are experiencing severe and enduring distress around mental health and addiction issues.
Whaiora (the person seeking health) and whānau accessing these services will receive a comprehensive assessment to work out the best support for them. We will work alongside whānau to support a transition back to your GP.
You can call or visit for a referral into the service or be referred by your health provider, Gisborne Hospital or any other support service.
Te Whare Awhiora provides a safe place for people who are in mental distress or illness and require 24 hour clinical care to recover. Te Whare Awhiora is focused on the needs of people, their families and the community they live in.
Admission to Te Whare Awhiora is for the ongoing assessment, care and treatment of mental distress or illness where this cannot be safely achieved in the community. Based on active crisis or acute intervention we work to prevent further deterioration of mental distress or illness, disability, and the development of dependency.
Te Whare Awhiora offers care that aims to help people reach a point where they can safely maintain wellbeing and access other services in their community.
Mental health and addictions support for individuals and whānau, from pēpi to kaumātua.