We provide health and disability services to more than half a million people living in central Auckland, regional services for Northland and greater Auckland, and specialist national services for the whole of New Zealand. Our main sites are Auckland City Hospital and Starship Child Health, located in central Auckland.
We serve a population of almost half a million people across central Auckland, as well as providing some services for the Northern region (such as adult cancer treatment) and services for the whole of New Zealand (including organ transplants). Our services are not just limited to the hospital setting, but include the provision or funding of many services within our community that support the overall health of our population – these include community mental health services, community lab tests and dental health.
Te Toka Tumai Auckland (formally Auckland DHB) provides services at two main hospital sites – Auckland City Hospital and Greenlane Clinical Centre. Auckland DHB is home to New Zealand’s largest clinical research facility and it is the largest trainer of doctors in the country.
Interested in joining our team of 10,000+ and helping us improve the health of Aucklanders? Check out our current vacancies at: http://careers.adhb.govt.nz/.
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Our Region:
Counties Manukau Health (CM Health) provides health and disability services to an estimated 512,000 people who reside in the local authorities of Auckland, Waikato and Hauraki District. The estimated Counties Manukau population for 2015 is 520,140 or 11% of the total New Zealand population.
What we do:
• Collaborating with other DHBs, service providers, the community and other stakeholders to plan the strategic direction for health and disability services in the northern region and promote the integration of health services
• Funding the provision of most health and disability services provided in Counties Manukau through service contracts with health and disability providers and non-governmental organisations
• Providing hospital based services for the population of Counties Manukau and some access to specialist or highly complex services for people who are referred from other DHBs
• Promoting, protecting and improving the health of the Counties Manukau population through the provision of health promotion, health education and evidence based public health initiatives.
Who we are:
We care about achieving health equity for our community. Together, the Counties Manukau health system will work with others to achieve equity in key health indicators for Maaori, Pacific and communities with health disparities by 2020.
We will measure the impact we have on healthy life years every year. This is our commitment to act and be deliberate in our choices and priorities.
This means that people will live longer healthier lives in the community
Our Values:
We aspire to live and breathe our values every day as the foundation of our strategic actions:
• Valuing everyone
Make everyone feel welcome and valued
•Kind
Care for other people's well being
• Together
Include everyone as part of the team
• Excellent
Safe, professional, always improving