Planned ASMS senior doctors' strike — Thursday 1 May, 24 hours
Patient safety is our priority. Our hospitals and emergency departments will remain open. Continue to attend all appointments on the day of the strike unless we have contacted you to reschedule.
Information on services to help keep your tamariki safe and healthy at home.
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Contact the Child Healthy Housing Team by:
The Child Healthy Housing team provides services under the Healthy Housing Initiative.
The aim of the Healthy Homes Initiative is to increase the number of tamariki and their whānau living in warm, dry, and healthy homes to enhance their health and wellbeing and reduce the number of housing-related hospitalisations.
Healthy Homes Initiative (external link)
Our Child Healthy Housing team are trained Safekids Aotearoa home safety assessors. Through our relationship with Safekids we are able to provide home safety devices for whānau, such as safety gates, outlet plug covers and fireguards.
Safekids Aotearoa — Starship (external link)
Health NZ — Hawke's Bay is a referring agency for Red Cross' curtain bank programme.
Print and complete the referral form and email it to us. We'll send it on to Red Cross for you.
Hawke's Bay curtain bank referral formPDF237 KB
Get warm curtains — New Zealand Red Cross (external link)
Upskill and increase your knowledge when you are looking to rent a house. Learn more about the following areas:
Ready to Rent is a Health NZ — Hawke’s Bay led initiative which is supported by Hawke's Bay Property Investor's Association, Te Taiwhenua o Heretaunga, WINZ, budget advice services and others.
Ready to Rent is administered by Birthright Hawke's Bay. Contact them for programme and workshop information on 06 878 0530
We have formed a wonderful relationship with our local EnergyMate service run through Ngāti Pahauwera. During our assessment we invite whānau to use this service to look at their energy consumption and ways to make their power and dollar go further. Most whānau are delighted to be referred to EnergyMate and recieve lots of helpful advice and 4 LED light bulbs.