Waitakere Health Centre

18/12/2025

🩺 Clinical Team Spotlight Series 🩺

Join us over the next few weeks as we introduce you to the team.

Health Improvement Practitioner | Sheela Solomon

Areas of interest/expertise:
Mental Health
Anxiety
Stress
ADHD
Trauma
Diabetes
Lifestyle behaviour change

What inspired you to work in General Practice, and what do you enjoy about it?
“I’m inspired by the opportunity to support people at the heart of their health journey. It allows me to meet individuals and whānau from all walks of life and understand their story. I love seeing people realise their strengths, regain hope, and feel empowered to take small steps in their wellbeing.”

Hobbies outside of general practice?
“Content creation, writing e-books on wellbeing, spending quality time with family, shopping 🛍️ , and learning new skills to help me grow personally and professionally.”

Do you speak multiple languages?
“English, Tamil, Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam”

One fun fact about you?
“I can drink coffee at any time of the day and still fall asleep easily ☺️”

You will find Sheela with us Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday.

Call to book today - FREE SERVICE provided by Sheela 📞

Stay tuned for our next Clinical Team Spotlight!

16/12/2025

Have your say! We are continuously looking for ways to improve our services for you, and to do this - we need your honest feedback.

We would appreciate your time to leave us a Google Review, please read the information attached in this post ☺️🙌

https://g.page/r/CR3Hst5sdx0ZEAE/review

15/12/2025

🩺 Clinical Team Spotlight Series 🩺

Join us over the next few weeks as we introduce you to the team.

General Practitioner | Dr. Andrei Postoialkov

Areas of interest/expertise:
Cardiology
Internal Medicine
Older Adults Health

What inspired you to work in General Practice, and what do you enjoy about it?
“I enjoy GP because it enables me to care for individuals and their families.”

Hobbies outside of general practice?
“Swimming 🏊‍♂️, Jogging 🏃🏽‍♂️, Chess ♟️ & Photography 📷”

Do you speak multiple languages?
“English, Belorussian & Russian”

You will find Dr. Andrei with us Monday to Friday.

Call to book today 📞

Stay tuned for our next Clinical Team Spotlight!

11/12/2025

🩺 Clinical Team Spotlight Series 🩺

Join us over the next few weeks as we introduce you to the team.

Nurse Practitioner | Carmel Rigby

Areas of interest/expertise:
Paediatrics
Women’s Health
Acute illness / Injuries

What inspired you to work in General Practice, and what do you enjoy about it?
“I was drawn to General Practice because it offers a rewarding challenge and it compliments my emergency care experience.”

Hobbies outside of Nursing?
“Family, gardening 🪏🪴, keeping fit and food!”

One fun fact about you?
“I can talk about the benefits of home grown fruit and veges for hours! 🥕🥦🍓🍋🥑🌽🥬”

You can normally find Carmel with us on a Friday, or another day during the week depending on our schedule.

Stay tuned for our next Clinical Team Spotlight!

11/12/2025

Kia ora patients,

Please be advised that Waitakere Health Centre will be CLOSED this Saturday 13th December.

We will be OPEN on Sunday 14th December 9am - 1pm.

Please phone for appointments 09 837 3933 or email us with any queries - reception@wuhealth.co.nz

09/12/2025

🩺 Clinical Team Spotlight Series 🩺

Join us over the next few weeks as we introduce you to the team.

Registered Nurse Prescriber | Franz Arevalo

Areas of interest/expertise:
Immunisations
Diabetes
Cardiovascular Disease (CVD)

What inspired you to work in General Practice, and what do you enjoy about it?
“I love being able to spend more time with patients and provide ongoing, long-term care. I’m passionate about education and prevention to help people live healthier lives.”

Hobbies outside of Nursing?
“I’m into lifting weights 💪 - it’s a great way to unwind after a busy day in the clinic."

One fun fact about you?
“I’m all about educating my patients with health advice... but I have to admit, I rely on energy drinks to keep me going."

You will find Franz in the clinic Monday - Saturday.

Stay tuned for our next Clinical Team Spotlight!

04/12/2025

Haere mai, Alana!

We are pleased to welcome Alana, our new Health Coach (HC) to our team.

📍Waitakere Health Centre
Monday, Tuesday

📍Otahuhu Health Centre
Thursday, Friday

Health Coaches provide a free service, ask your GP or Nurse to make a referral for you, or phone/email Reception.

02/12/2025

Kia ora Waitakere Health Centre patients,

We are OPEN and here to support you if needed over the Christmas & New Year holiday period 🎄

Saturdays are OPEN 9am - 1pm also (walk in available)

Noho ora mai rā

28/10/2025

Changes to Union Member Entitlements | Effective 1st November 2025

Kia ora Union Members,

We wish to inform you of an upcoming change to service entitlements.

Starting 1st November 2025, Union Members will be entitled to 4 free services per calendar year (January to December).

These services include:
· Consultations (each consultation = 15 minutes)
· Prescriptions

Examples of how your annual allowance may be used:
· 4 consultations
· 3 consultations + 1 prescription
· 2 consultations + 2 prescriptions
· Any other combination totalling 4 services

Due to significant cuts in primary care funding across the region, our ability to continue offering highly subsidised services has been directly impacted. To ensure we can maintain the high quality care you deserve, it has become necessary to adjust our fees.

We greatly appreciate your understanding and continued support. Our priority remains your health and wellbeing, and we are committed to providing the best possible care.

If you have any questions, please send us a message or phone our reception team.

Ngā mihi,
Waitakere Health Centre

24/10/2025

Haere mai, Sheela!

We are pleased to welcome Sheela, our new Health Improvement Practitioner (HIP) to our team.

📍Waitakere Health Centre
Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday

📍Otahuhu Health Centre
Monday and Thursday

HIPs provide a free service, ask your GP or Nurse to make a referral for you.

17/10/2025

Are you or someone you know having trouble with your hearing? Tired of repeating yourself?

The lovely Alex from Your Way l Kia Roha is in our clinic every second Tuesday morning with limited appointments for those aged 16 and over:

🦻 Free hearing tests
🦻 Help with hearing
🦻 Managing Tinnitus
🦻 Communication strategies

Hearing Therapy is a free and independent service that can help you live well with hearing loss. Funded by Whaikaha - Ministry of Disabled People.

Phone Reception today 09 837 3933 for appointments

Send a message to learn more

15/10/2025

We can't express enough how important mammograms are, this is fantastic news for our wāhine.

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month 💗

🎀Mums need mammograms like kids need mums.
🎀Early detection of breast cancer is to supplement regular mammograms with general breast awareness.
🎀Know what your breasts normally look and feel like and report any changes to your GP promptly.
🎀Don’t ignore any changes which develop between mammograms.

We are so excited to share that breast screening is now officially being extended nationwide to include women aged up to 74, a change that will save lives through early detection.

We’ve been campaigning for this extension for eight years, knowing that a woman’s risk of breast cancer is actually higher at 70 than it is at 50. This means thousands more women will now have the chance to receive an early diagnosis when breast cancer is most curable.

Nelson woman Rita knows just how important that one extra mammogram can be. After turning 74 last year, she was invited for one more free mammogram, which found stage 1 breast cancer.

“I’d been naïve in thinking I was no longer at risk once screening stopped at 69. I was very lucky mine was caught early. That extra mammogram could be all the difference.”

Every year, around 350 women aged 70–74 are diagnosed with breast cancer in New Zealand. This national roll-out gives more women the chance to detect it early, avoid invasive treatment, and live longer, healthier lives.

Today is a significant milestone. After years of advocacy, we’re so pleased to see New Zealand finally on par with countries like Australia, Canada, France, Sweden and the UK - ensuring more women can access life-saving screening for longer.