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Te Whatu Ora - Health New Zealand Southern

Organisation

Description

Formerly Southern District Health Board (Southern DHB)

Te Whatu Ora – Southern exists to support everyone across our district to live well, and access the right care when they need it, by delivering high quality, patient-centred and equitable health services to our diverse communities.

We are responsible for planning, funding and providing health and disability services to a population of over 315,000 located South of the Waitaki River. Our catchment area encompasses Invercargill City, Queenstown - Lakes District, Gore, rural Southland, Clutha, Central Otago, Maniototo, Waitaki District and Dunedin City. This means Southern DHB serves the largest geographic region of all New Zealand's health boards.

To achieve this we work in partnership with Iwi, primary care and community providers, rural trust hospitals and education and research partners across the district. Altogether, we receive government funding of over $900 million per annum, of which approximately half is applied to traditional hospital and mental health services delivered from Southland Hospital (Invercargill), Lakes District Hospital (Queenstown), Dunedin Hospital (Dunedin) and Wakari Hospital (Dunedin). The other half of our funding is applied through contracts with a range of primary and community health providers. This funding is distributed to providers such as Primary Health Organisations (general practices), pharmacies, laboratories, aged residential care facilities, Pacific Islands and Māori Health providers, non-governmental mental health services, rural hospitals and primary maternity facilities.

Our statutory purpose is to:

improve, promote and protect the health of our population
promote effective care and support for people in need of personal health or disability services
reduce health outcome disparities
manage national strategies and implementation plans
develop and implement strategies for the specific health needs of our local population.

Te Whatu Ora – Southern has a staff of approximately 4,500 and is currently governed by a Commissioner and two deputy Commissioners appointed by her. The Commissioner is accountable to the Minister of Health and holds office until the persons elected at the next election of members of Boards, scheduled for 2019, take office as Board members.

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Further Information

For further information and frequently asked questions about health localities, please see the Ministry of Health's website.

Southern DHB Website

https://www.southernhealth.nz/

Services

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Contact Details

Postal Address

Te Whatu Ora – Southern
Private Bag 1921
Dunedin 9054
New Zealand

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This page was last updated at 4:49PM on July 13, 2022.