Our mission is to provide excellent care in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of patients with infections;
To uphold the principles of Te Tiriti;
To strive for equitable outcomes for Māori and Pacific patients with infections;
To work collegially to promote the judicious use of antimicrobials to achieve excellent outcomes for our patients in the hospital and wider community.
The infectious diseases service at Auckland City Hospital contributes to the care of people with a wide variety of infections both within the hospital and in the Auckland/Northland community.
We directly look after a small number of people on the infectious diseases ward (Ward 65), Level 6 of the new hospital building. We also see a large number of people who are being looked after by other services throughout the hospital to offer advice on the appropriate management of problems due to infection.
We see a large number of people with non urgent problems in our outpatient clinic on Level 6 of the Support Building. Click here for directions to the Clinic.
We see people with:
| › | HIV infection |
| › | infections after surgery |
| › | travel associated infections such as malaria, dengue and typhoid |
| › | tuberculosis involving organs other than the lungs |
| › | infections after organ/bone marrow transplants or in people whose immune system is suppressed for other reasons |
| › | infections that will require prolonged intravenous antibiotic treatment that we can often arrange to give at home – OPIVA service. |