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HOKIANGA HEALTH ENTERPRISE TRUST is a registered charitable trust formed in May 1992, owned and governed by the people of Hokianga.

Hokianga Health (or Hauora Hokianga) is a health care provider, owned by the Trust. We provide a range of comprehensive, integrated health services to approximately 6,500 people who reside within the catchment area of the Hokianga river. Most of the services, including GP visits (for registered members of the practice), are provided at no cost at the point of need.
Hauora Hokianga is a member of the Te Tai Tokerau Primary Health Organisation.

Hokianga is located on the west coast of the Far North district of New Zealand. The area is traditionally described in Maori society through the visual linking of the mountains that surround the Hokianga Harbour. Hokianga is rich in both Maori and European history and is considered by Maori to be the birthplace of the nation. Kupe, the great pacific explorer, before eventually returning to Hawaiiki, settled in this place that later became known as Hokianga nui a Kupe.

If you live in Hokianga or close enough for Hauora Hokianga to be your usual provider of 24 hour Primary Health Care services and you wish to enrol with us you can download an enrolment form using this link:
Patient Enrolment Form

News

Christmas Opening Hours

22/12/11: The community clinics will be closed from Monday 26 December to Tuesday 3 January, and will re-open as usual from Wednesday 4 January. The Rawene Health Centre will be open for the whole of the holiday period for accidents and emergencies only phone 09 405 7709. A nurse will be available at Omapere clinic on 28, 29 & 30 December and at Kohukohu a nurse will be available in the community if you leave a message on the clinic phone or contact through Rawene Health Centre. Please remember that in emergency you need to call 111 so that emergency services can be co-ordinated.

Trustee Appointments

13/12/11: In October the Trust held its annual series of meetings with the different communities, reporting on what was achieved in the 2010/11 year and our ideas for the future. Two new elected Trustees joined the Trust,and their appointments were ratified at the annual general meeting on November 29. At the December meeting a second Trustee appointment was made to fill the vacant seat for the Taheke clinic area. The annual general meeting, as with all Trust board meetings, is open to the public. It is held at Te Whare Matauranga (the hospital site meeting room), starting at 9.30am.

Digital Radiology Implemented

1/7/11: Hauora Hokianga has successfully installed and implemented digital radiology at the Hokianga / Rawene Hospital. This new technology allows for rapid diagnostic imaging to be made without the need for the time-consuming processes previously required to develop and dispatch X-Ray film.
The images are assessed by a specialist radiologist based at Whangarei Hospital (130 km away). These medical assessments can now be immediately undertaken as required by Hauora Hokianga doctors. The outcome is a higher quality service and more immediate patient care, which will on occasion save patients and their families making the long journey to Whangarei Hospital and back.
The Trust acknowledges the technical staff of Hauora Hokianga, Northland District Health Board and the Northland based wireless broadband provider, Uber Group for providing innovative solutions for the safe and fast transfer of the imaging data. We also acknolwedge our radiographer, Sue Stott who led the project and the contribution towards costs we received from Northland DHB.

New Mangamuka Clinic opens - Te Whare Rapu Oranga

16/4/11: Drizzle and showers did not dampen the spirits at the opening of the new Hauora Hokianga health clinic at Mangamuka - Te Whare Rapu Oranga o Mangamuka. More then a hundred people gathered; the Mangamuka, Umawera and Mangataipa communities, the Hokianga Health Enterprise Trust and visitors from further afield for the occasion, which is the culmination of several years of planning and work. The clinic has a functional design, with three well-appointed consulting rooms, staff facilities and a large waiting room which will double as a community meeting space, but it also has unique features which make it a taonga for the people of this community. On either side of the entrance doors are tow carvings by local Hone Heke, depicting the history of the area both Maori and pakeha, and the influence of the health system and its relationship with the community. Above the door is a stained glass window, made by Michele Androu, showing the mountain Maungataniwha and the harbour. This window has the inscription "He ika kori paripa me he tangata toitu" which may be translated to convey the meaning that a healthy fish can swim against the tide, and so it is for people. And inside are four beautiful tukutuku panels woven by Hinemoa Henderson. These are a blend of the traditional with the contemporary - one shows the various rivers flowing into the Hokianga waterway. A second panel is the shape of a waka, a third the forests and the fourth is the two taniwha of Hokianga harbour, Niniwa and Arai-Te-Uru.

Hauora Hokianga runs a weekly doctor clinic and weekly nurse clinic at Mangamuka, linked to Hokianga Hospital at Rawene by broadbank link, facilitated by a specialist tower erected by the Northland internet provider Uber Group for the use of the Trust and which is also available for community residents wishing to subscribe. It was a special day of celebration, thanks and acknowledgements which was enjoyed by all.

Hauora Hokianga Integrated PHO Retires

1/1/11: From today, Hauora Hokianga Integrated PHO has wound down and the Hauora Hokianga practice is now under the umbrella of Te Tai Tokerau Primary Health Organisation. Hokianga Health Enterprise Trust responded to the Minister of Health's request to amalgamate the smaller PHOs in Northland. However this was not a decision that was taken lightly by the Trust because the Hauora Hokianga Integrated PHO, despite being one of the smallest PHOs in the country, was one of the most effective in achieving the goals of the Primary Health Strategy 2001. This was apparent in the governance model which assured community ownership, in its high level of service integration, and its community development projects.

Although these attributes may not be as important as the size of PHOs to the Minister of Health, they will continue to remain important to the Trust. Hauora Hokianga will continue to maintain and enhance these critical aspects of population health, but without the domain of its successful PHO.