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Amitabha Hospice Service Trust

  • Cost of Service Free
  • Telephone (09) 828 3321
  • Email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
  • Address 44 Powell St, Avondale, Auckland 1026
  • Regions Served North Shore, Rodney, Waitakere, Other Auckland areas
Overview
Amitabha Hospice Service offers free practical home help and compassionate companionship for the elderly and the incurably ill of any age and their families, with specially trained and supervised Caregivers throughout the greater Auckland area. Volunteers are multi-cultural and multi-lingual. Based on Buddhist principles Love, Integrity, Equanimity and Service.

Antara Free Natural Health Clinic

  • Cost of Service Free
  • Telephone (09) 834 7987
  • Address 66 Taikata Rd, Te Atatu Peninsula
  • Regions Served Waitakere
Overview
The Antara Free Natural Health Clinic is for those people in the community who cannot afford to pay for natural health care. The therapists are qualified practitioners who, along with the receptionists, work at the clinic from a half to a full day per week.

Care on Call

  • Cost of Service Free, Low Cost, Other
  • Telephone 0800 664422
    (09) 966 0011
  • Email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
  • Address Level 5, 55 Anzac Ave, 1010
  • Regions Served North Shore, Rodney, Waitakere, Other Auckland areas
Overview
Care on Call provide in home care services to those in need . This includes supporting people with personal care, companionship and a range of household tasks. Care on Call also offer specialised services such as Dementia care, end of life support and rehabilitation services. Care On Call provides Ministry of Health and ACC funded services as well as privately paid support.

Comprehensive Care

  • Cost of Service Free, Other
  • Telephone (09) 415 1091
  • Email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
  • Address 42 Tawa Drive, Albany
  • Regions Served North Shore, Rodney, Waitakere, Other Auckland areas
Overview
Comprehensive Care provide services to:• Help people manage Diabetes (free)• Provide support to stop smoking• Counselling to help with a range of anxiety and depression problemsOne-to-one and group sessions are available.Staff speak a range of languages including English, Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese) and Korean. Interpreters may be available for speakers of other languages.

Family Information Service - Starship

  • Cost of Service Free
  • Telephone (09) 307 4955
  • Email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
  • Address Level 3, Starship Children's Health, Park Road, Grafton, Auckland 1023 (opposite Outpatients)
  • Regions Served North Shore, Rodney, Waitakere, Other Auckland areas
Overview
The Family Information Service is a free service that provides families/whanau/caregivers with up-to-date, easy-to-read consumer health information on children's medical conditions and disabilities, including support group contact details.

Family Planning New Zealand

  • Cost of Service Free, Low Cost
  • Telephone [Rodney]
    (09) 486 1014
    [North Shore]
    (09) 486 1014
    [Waitakere]
    0800 372 546
  • Address [Rodney]
    The Hibiscus Coast Youth Centre, 214 Hibiscus Coast Highway, Orewa
    [North Shore]
    15 Anzac Street, Takapuna, North Shore City 0622
    [Waitakere]
    Level 2, 1 McCrae Way, New Lynn, Auckland 0600
  • Regions Served North Shore, Rodney, Waitakere, Other Auckland areas
Overview
Family Planning is a national organisation that provides support with sexual and reproductive health. Working with people of any gender, age, ethnicity or sexual orientation. Consultations are free for NZ residents aged under 22 years.• Clinical services• Health information• Education, training and research

Harbour Hospice

  • Cost of Service Free
  • Telephone [Rodney]
    (09) 425 9535
    [North Shore]
    (09) 486 1688
    [Other Auckland areas]
    (09) 421 9180
  • Email [Rodney]
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    [North Shore]
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    [Other Auckland areas]
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  • Address [Rodney]
    47 Morrison Drive, Warkworth
    [North Shore]
    7 Shea Terrace, Takapuna
    [Other Auckland areas]
    2a John Dee Crescent , Red Beach, Auckland
  • Regions Served North Shore, Rodney, Other Auckland areas
Overview
Harbour Hospice provide specialist active care for people in the community with any type of advanced, progressive and terminal disease that no longer responds to curative treatment. This improves the quality of life for patients and families, through the prevention and relief of suffering, pain and other symptoms; physical, psychological, social and spiritual.

Health and Disability Commissioner's Office (HDC)

  • Cost of Service Free
  • Telephone 0800 112 233
  • Email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
  • Regions Served North Shore, Rodney, Waitakere, Other Auckland areas
Overview
The role of the Commissioner is to promote and protect the rights of health and disability consumers (pursuant to the Health and Disability Commissioner Act 1994) and to facilitate the fair, simple, speedy and efficient resolution of complaints. Brochures are available detailing the rights under the Code and how to lodge a complaint. This is a nationwide service.

Healthify He Puna Waiora (formerly Health Navigator NZ)

Overview
Healthify He Puna Waiora (formerly known as Health Navigator NZ) provides reliable and trustworthy health information and self-care resources for New Zealanders. On their website you can find links to health conditions, medicines, healthy living advice, apps, videos, resources in different languages, where to get support, information for clinicians and more.

Healthline

  • Cost of Service Free
  • Telephone 0800 611 116
  • Regions Served North Shore, Rodney, Waitakere, Other Auckland areas
Overview
Healthline is a free, 24 hour a day, telephone health advice service. Healthline registered nurses assess a person's condition and health needs and recommend the best course of action and a time-frame in which to take action. They can also provide general health information and location of services. The service provides a language line for non-English speakers.

HealthWEST - Te Puna Manawa Community Health Services

  • Cost of Service Free
  • Telephone (09) 839 7480
  • Email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
  • Regions Served North Shore, Rodney, Waitakere
Overview
Te Puna Manawa HealthWEST is an NGO with Māori provider status. Passionate about improving health and social outcomes, through free, innovative primary care and community services focusing on Māori, Pacific, tamariki, rangatahi, whanau and other high needs populations. They provide the following services: Healthy Babies, Healthy Futures, Outreach Immunisation Service, Youth Health Hub/Clinic, Enhanced School Based Health Services, Your Choice – Youth Primary Mental Health Programme, Young Dads Programme, Pacific Cancer and Community Support, Noho Āhuru Healthy Homes Initiative

Helensville Birthing Centre

  • Cost of Service Free
  • Telephone (09) 420 8747
  • Email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
  • Address 53-65 Commercial Road Helensville, 0840
  • Regions Served North Shore, Rodney, Waitakere, Other Auckland areas
Overview
Helensville Birthing Centre is a community facility offering birthing and post-natal care, situated in the heart of the rural community of Helensville. Helensville Birthing Centre is available for families who choose to give birth in a low-tech environment and want the opportunity to rest and establish breastfeeding in the immediate post-natal period.Birthing at Helensville Birthing Centre is free to all New Zealand residents and women eligible for free maternity care.

Helensville District Health Trust

  • Cost of Service Low Cost
  • Telephone 094207
  • Email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
  • Address 1 Porter Crescent, Helensville 0800
  • Regions Served Rodney
Overview
The Helensville District Health Trust facilitates a range of services to the South Kaipara community. The Health Campus situated in central Helensville is home to a host of health related services including:• Kaipara Medical Centre• LabTests• Waitemata DHB health services• Te Hā Oranga (Maori Health)• Helensville Birthing Centre• Parent Aid North West

Hibiscus Coast Community Health Centre

  • Cost of Service Free
  • Telephone (09) 427 0300
  • Address 136 Whangaparaoa Road Red Beach
  • Regions Served Rodney
Overview
The Hibiscus Coast Community Health Centre provides the following services:- Allied Health- Continence Service- Dietetics - Community- District Mental Health Services- District Nursing Service- Gerontology Nurse Specialist (GNS) Service - Nga Kaitiaki Kaumatua- Mental Health Services for Older Adults (MHSOA)- Needs Assessment & Service Co-ordination (NASC)- Occupational Therapy - Community- Older Adults & Home Health (OA&HH)- Ostomy Service- Physiotherapy - Community- Social Work - Community- Speech Language Therapy - Community

Hospice West Auckland

  • Cost of Service Free
  • Telephone (09) 834 9750
  • Email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
  • Address 52 Beach Road, Te Atatu Peninsula
  • Regions Served Waitakere
Overview
Hospice West Auckland is a charity providing specialist palliative care for people at the end of their lives. They offer their unique blend of holistic care to patients, families, whānau and carers. They support patients and families with their physical, emotional, spiritual, and practical needs both in their homes and at Hospice House in Te Atatu Peninsula. They care about quality of life, comfort and dignity at the end of life, and ongoing support for those who are grieving.

Kāinga Ora Healthy Homes

  • Cost of Service Free
  • Telephone 0800 801 601
  • Email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
  • Regions Served North Shore, Rodney, Waitakere, Other Auckland areas
Overview
Kainga Ora Healthy Homes is a free service which aims to support low income families to have warmer, drier and healthier homes. This can be in the form of education, supplementing social housing applications or minor housing repairs. Interventions are delivered through a mixture of social work and interagency collaboration. Families in all housing tenures (social housing, private rental, boarders) are potentially eligible.

Older Adults & Home Health Services (OA&HH)

Overview
Older Adults & Home Health provides expertise and specialist care for older people in both an inpatient and community setting.Their services include: - Assessment Treatment & Rehabilitation Service (AT&R)- Continence Service- District Nursing- Gerontology Nurse Specialist Service (GNS) - Nga Kaitiaki Kaumatua- Mental Health Services for Older Adults (MHSOA)- Needs Assessment and Service Co-ordination (NASC)- Ostomy Service- Palliative Care

Quitline

  • Cost of Service Free, Low Cost
  • Telephone 0800 778 778
  • Regions Served North Shore, Rodney, Waitakere, Other Auckland areas
Overview
Call or text (4006) Quitline for free advice and non-judgemental support to quit smoking.An advisor will talk you through the three parts of the smoking addiction - chemical, emotional and habitual. Through Quitline you can order subsidized nicotine patches, gum or lozenges - $5 for a 4 week supply (with the option of a free repeat). They'll also send you a Quit Pack with resources to support you.

Ready, Steady, Quit

  • Cost of Service Free
  • Telephone 0800 500 601
  • Email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
  • Regions Served North Shore, Rodney, Waitakere, Other Auckland areas
Overview
Stopping smoking is hard. But Ready Steady Quit can make it easier. Their free service is focused around you and includes face-to-face sessions with trained professionals who can help you make it through. Here’s what you’ll get:• Four week group programme - with individual or group support options• Nicotine replacement - nicotine gum, lozenges or patchesTheir service is open to anyone who wants to stop smoking in the Auckland and Waitemata District Health Board regions.

Stuttering Treatment and Research Trust (START)

  • Cost of Service Low Cost
  • Telephone (09) 579 6775
    027 229 3361
  • Email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
  • Address The Stichbury Bidwill Centre, 251 Campbell Rd, Greenlane, Auckland 1061
  • Regions Served North Shore, Rodney, Waitakere, Other Auckland areas
Overview
START is a charitable trust that provides specialist therapy and support for people of all ages who stutter and their families and whanau. START works with preschool and school age children, teens and adults. They provide individual therapy (both in person and via Zoom) and a range of groups and courses. They have a clinic in Greenlane.Please don't hesitate to contact them if you or someone you know is stuttering - there is help available.
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