Local contacts

Your local district representative can help upload your advance care plan

If you would like support with advance care planning or uploading your plan locally, see below to find out who to contact in your Te Whatu Ora – Health New Zealand district.

Northland

Te Whatu Ora – Health New Zealand Te Tai Tokerau

Serves the area from Topuni in the south to North Cape.

Te Ika-a-Māui – North Island

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Contact: Maree Sharp
Email: acp@northlanddhb.org.nz
Phone: 021 832 614

Waitematā

Te Whatu Ora – Health New Zealand Waitematā

Serves North Shore, Waitakere, and Rodney, Wellsford to Auckland Harbour Bridge, Whangaparāoa, Muriwai, Piha and Karekare.

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Email: TBC

Auckland

Te Whatu Ora – Health New Zealand Te Toka Tumai Auckland

Serves central Auckland, regional services for Northland and greater Auckland

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Contact: Sheri-Lyn Purdy
Email: SheriLyn2@adhb.govt.nz

  • Email your plan to the above address

    GPs please also note that a PDF copy of an advance care plan can be attached to a GP e-referral.

Counties Manukau

Te Whatu Ora – Health New Zealand Counties Manukau

Serves the Counties Manukau region

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Waikato

Te Whatu Ora – Health New Zealand Waikato

Serves northern Coromandel to Mt Ruapehu in the south, and from Raglan on the west coast to Waihi on the east.

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Contact: Mary Robertson
Email: acp@hospicewaikato.org.nz
Phone:0272 864 867

  • Please contact Mary for anything related to advance care planning. We are here to help guide you through the process of thinking about, talking about, documenting and sharing your advance care plan.

    We are also offering support to deliver advance care planning workshops, community presentations and education to all clinical staff.

Bay of Plenty

Te Whatu Ora – Health New Zealand Hauora A Toi Bay of Plenty

Serves Western Bay of Plenty and Eastern Bay of Plenty - Tauranga and Whakatāne.

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  • 1. Email us your plan to and it can be uploaded to your health records.

    2. Leave a copy of your plan with your GP it can be uploaded to your health records.

    3. Follow the steps of Manage My Health to upload a copy of your plan and it can be added to your health records

Lakes

Te Whatu Ora – Health New Zealand Lakes

Serves Mourea to Mangakino, Tūrangi across to Kaingaroa village. Major centres - Rotorua and Taupō.

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Contact: Your GP

  • Visit your GP to finalise and sign your advance care plan. The general practice team will scan your plan to the hospital system.

Tairāwhiti

Te Whatu Ora – Health New Zealand Tairāwhiti

Serves Tairāwhiti Gisborne.

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  • Give a copy of your advance care plan to your family and friends. Also be sure to send/give a copy to your GP.

    To have a copy of your plan on your hospital notes please email a copy to acp.admin@tdh.org.nz

Taranaki

Te Whatu Ora – Health New Zealand Taranaki

Serves New Plymouth, Taranaki and Hāwera

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  • Please contact Mary (acp.admin@tdhb.org.nz) to help guide you through the process of thinking about, talking about, documenting and sharing your advance care plan.

    We are also offering support to deliver advance care planning workshops, community presentations and education to all clinical staff.

Whanganui

Te Whatu Ora – Health New Zealand Whanganui

Serves Whanganui city, Marton, Waiouru, Taihape, Bulls, Ohakune and Raetihi.

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  • Take a copy to the GP who can then fax, email or post to the hospital. This will then be uploaded to a clinical portal where an alert will be generated.

    Those who do not have a GP can submit to the hospital by emailing cleo.berryman@wdhb.org.nz

Hawke’s Bay

Te Whatu Ora – Health New Zealand Te Matau a Māui Hawke’s Bay

Serves the Hawke’s Bay region.

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Contact: Your GP

MidCentral

Te Whatu Ora – Health New Zealand Te Pae Hauora o Ruahine o Tararua MidCentral

Serves Horowhenua, Manawatū, Palmerston North, Tararua district and the Ōtaki ward of the Kāpiti coast district.

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  • Talk to your GP team about reviewing your advance directives and getting your advance care plan loaded onto their system.

    Please keep an original of your advance care plan and take it with you to health appointments or ED. Remember to keep your advance care plan up-to-date and share any changes with your GP team.

Capital & Coast, Hutt Valley and Wairarapa

Te Whatu Ora – Health New Zealand Capital & Coast, Hutt Valley and Wairarapa

Serves Wellington City, Hutt Valley, Porirua City and the Kapiti Coast at Paraparaumu.

  • Make an appointment with your GP or practice nurse to help you with the medical aspects of your advance care plan.

    Your medical centre can put your signed and dated plan onto your medical centre file and either you or your medical centre can send a scanned copy plan to acp@ccdhb.org.nz to have it added to your hospital file.

    This allows hospital doctors across the region to access and respond to your wishes in an emergency. If you change your plan in the future, share the new version with your medical centre and acp@ccdhb.org.nz

Te Waipounamu – South Island

Nelson Marlborough

Te Whatu Ora – Health New Zealand Nelson Marlborough

Serves Nelson, Tasman and Marlborough regions.

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Email Nelson/Tasman: acp@nbph.org.nz
Marlborough: acp@marlboroughpho.org.nz

  • Visit your general practice team to finalise and sign your advance care plan. Ask to have your plan loaded to your electronic medical record.

West Coast

Te Whatu Ora – Health New Zealand Te Tai o Poutini West Coast

Serves the West Coast of the South Island, covering an area from Karamea in the North to Haast in the South.

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TBC

Canterbury

Te Whatu Ora – Health New Zealand Waitaha Canterbury

Serves the East Coast of the South Island from Kaikōura in the north, to Ashburton in the south, as well as the Rēkohu/Chatham Islands.

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  • Visit your GP practice team to complete section 6 of your advance care plan. Ask to have your plan loaded to the electronic medical record.

South Canterbury

Te Whatu Ora – Health New Zealand South Canterbury

Serves the area between the Rangitata and Waitaki rivers. It includes the Timaru, Waimate and Mackenzie districts.

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  • Talk to your GP or health professional.

Southern

Te Whatu Ora – Health New Zealand Southern

Serves Dunedin, Invercargill, Queenstown, and Wanaka

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  • Talk to your GP or health care professional

    Visit your general practice team to finalise and sign your advance care plan. Ask to have your plan loaded to your electronic medical record

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