Tuwharetoa Health provides a comprehensive range of services to support you and your whānau. These services can work together in a complementary way to provide a wraparound package of support that can help elderly whānau to stay independent in their own homes for as long as possible. Find more information here.

• Home Based Support Services – working with clients who are assessed as requiring support in their own homes with needs such as showering, dressing, home help, shopping, food preparation, and cleaning.

• Kaumātua Day Programmes - day programme in Taupō and Tūrangi that includes activities such as Tai Chi, line dancing, upright exercises, swimming, gentle exercises and crafts.

• Long Term Conditions Nursing Service - for people with conditions such as diabetes, heart and respiratory conditions. Aim to encourage clients to take a more active role in the management of their health and provide information and skills to give the client confidence to self-manage.
  
  
• Te Aka Matua Health Service - our kaiwhakahaere works with whānau to help to prevent repeat admissions to hospital. We will provide you and your whānau with the information and support to maintain your health in partnership with you and others involved in your care such as long-term conditions nurses, your doctor and others. Our kaiwhakahaere is also able to give cultural support to you and your whānau if you are admitted into the hospital.

Tuwharetoa Health provides services to connect whānau with the right support when they need. These services can work together in a complementary way to provide a wraparound package of support that can engage positively with whānau and help them to link into other community providers. Find more information here.

• Breast and Cervical Screening Support Service - a free breast cancer screening service for women between 45 and 69 years of age or any age where there is a history of breast cancer within the whānau. Also, a free cervical cancer screening service for women between 20 and 69 years of age or any age where there is a history of cervical cancer within the whānau
• Whānau Ora Navigation Service (Tiwhana) - whānau are supported by tiwhana (navigators) across a broad range of focus areas such as health, education, employment, housing and social services. Goals and aspirations are identified by the whānau and tiwhana provide assistance to achieve those goals. 

  The delivery of Whānau Ora services is a partnership between Tuwharetoa Health and Te Korowai Roopu Tautoko.

• Family Start - funded by Oranga Tamariki, this is a free home visiting programme that focuses on improving children’s growth and health, learning and relationships, family circumstances, environment and safety. We deliver Family Start services to the wider Taupō district including Tūrangi and Mangakino.
• Māori Disability Support Service - advocacy and support service for anyone who has a disability. To empower whānau to access services and achieve a positive outcome, to help ensure that services are delivered in a culturally appropriate manner.

Services to support whānau with pepi and tamariki and connect whānau with the support they need. These services can work together in a complementary way to provide a wraparound package of support that can help whānau with pepi and/or tamariki in a number of ways. Find more information here

• Awhi House Tūrangi – Maternal Health Services hub. A drop-in centre for new parents. Services available include antenatal, labour, birth and postnatal care and support, life skills for new parents, newborn hearing screening, breastfeeding support and education, outreach immunisations, Family Start (3 days a week) as well as links to a range of other community services. Awhi House is open Monday to Friday from 9am to 3pm.

• Parenting & Lactation Service - working alongside our Tamariki Ora team in Taupō is our Parentcraft and Lactation consultant, providing parentcraft and parenting advice to all new parents. Breastfeeding support and lactation advice are available to all mothers. Our consultant will visit you in your home or at a venue that suits you.

• Tamariki Ora - Well Child Nurses. Providing support to mothers following childbirth and up till your pēpi turns 5 years old. Our nurses will visit your home and complete child health checks and work to make sure you are well supported with information and education about your child’s health and development.

• Tūrangi School Nursing Service - a rapid response service for sore throats and skin conditions based once a week in Tūrangi schools.  The registered nurse works closely with the schools, families, public health nurses and GPs to ensure treatment and follow-up for children who access the service within the schools.  Schools presently covered are Te Kura o Hirangi, Tongariro Area School and Kuratau schools. The registered nurse also visits with all ECEs and Kohanga Reo facilities in the Tūrangi rohe.

• Kaupapa Māori

• Whānau Ora Navigation Service (Tiwhana)

• Breast screening (mammogram)
• Cervical screening

• Self management support

• Long term conditions nursing
• Te Aka Matua health service

• Home support carers
• Assistance with bathing/hygiene
• Meals on wheels

• Home based support services

• Support after birth
• Parent wellbeing
• Parenting education
• Breastfeeding support
• Health checks

Services to support whānau with pepi and tamariki and connect whānau with the support they need. These services can work together in a complementary way to provide a wraparound package of support that can help whānau with pepi and/or tamariki in a number of ways.

Tuwharetoa Health provides a comprehensive range of services to support you and your whānau. These services can work together in a complementary way to provide a wraparound package of support that can help elderly whānau to stay independent in their own homes for as long as possible.