Perhaps you wish to change doctors or are new to the area and need to establish a relationship with a doctor or health practise?
Two regional Primary Health Organisations (PHOs) cover the top of the south and represent General Practitioners (GPs).
They have their own websites with online lists of registered health practices and GPs, their fees, and contact details including whether they are accepting new patients.
1. Choose the area closest to you from the two options below.
2. Once on the website home page, select: GP Fees and Charges
Nelson Region After Hours & Duty Doctor Ltd (Telephone: 546 8881) operates from 96 Waimea Road, Nelson seven days a week from 8am to 10pm, with a duty doctor on-call after 10pm. This service is available for visitors to the area or those who have shifted here but don't yet have a GP, and it covers GP calls after hours for Nelson city and rural areas to Wakefield and Mapua. Other rural areas have rosters for after hours care - accessed by directions on all GPs’ answer-phones.
The after-hours duty doctors for Marlborough are co-located with the Emergency Department at Wairau Hospital in Blenheim. More info...click here
Healthline - 0800 611 116
www.moh.govt.nz/healthline
Healthline is a free, 24 hour a day, telephone health advice service. It now also includes the Well Child advice service.The Healthline call centre is staffed by registered nurses. The nurses do not diagnose or treat health problems over the phone. The nurses determine the most appropriate level of care for the caller.
Healthline is a non NMDHB service and is funded by the Ministry of Health.
PHOs are the local structures for delivering and co-ordinating primary health care services. PHOs bring together doctors, nurses and other health professionals (such as Maori health workers, health promotion workers, dieticians, pharmacists, physiotherapists, psychologists and midwives) in the community to serve the needs of our populations.
PHOs vary widely in size and structure and are not-for-profit. The first PHOs were established in July 2002 and there are now 81 PHOs around the country. DHBs worked with local communities and provider organisations to establish PHOs in their regions.
PHOs get a set amount of funding from the government to subsidise a range of health services. The funding is based on the numbers and characteristics (eg, age, sex, and ethnicity) of people enrolled with them. That funding pays for:
- Providing care and treatment when people are ill
- Helping people stay healthy
- Reaching out to those groups in their community who have poor health or who are missing out on primary health care.
There is lots of information on the Ministry of Health website. www.moh.govt.nz/pho
Find out more about the Nelson PHO at www.nelsonpho.org.nz
Find out more about the Marlborough PHO at www.marlboroughpho.org.nz
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