Whaitara Health Centre

31/10/2025

29/10/2025

If you're heading along to Puanga over the next few days, come stop by the Tui Ora tent to have a kōrero with our kaimahi about our services. We're offering adult and childhood immunisations - including MMR, making it easy to protect yourself and others from Measles! You'll find us round the back of the hall by the food trucks!

28/10/2025

Please have a listen to learn more about Measles! Ngā mihi nui to Alf and Dr Alex for having this important kōrero 💚

28/10/2025

We're holding a drop-in vaccination clinic this Saturday 1 November, in response to the Measles outbreak across Aotearoa (and now in Taranaki).

If you're not immune to Measles through vaccination or previously having it, please come along to protect yourself and others from this highly contagious disease.

With Aotearoa now having many confirmed cases of Measles and locations of interest, including in Taranaki, please protect yourself and your whānau by getting vaccinated if you haven’t already.

To make it easy, you can come along to our drop-in clinic in Ngāmotu or Waitara this Saturday 1 November to get immunised - no appointment needed!

Measles is one of the most infectious diseases known, infecting children as well as adults via droplets carried in the air from someone infected. The virus can remain infectious in the air for up to two hours!

Measles is so contagious – that anyone exposed to measles who is not immune through vaccination or previous infection is about 90% likely to become infected.

The good news is - if you’re immune, you’re protected!

Get in touch with us on 0800 TUI ORA to have a kōrero if you have any pātai!

23/10/2025

Awesome mahi by the Tui Ora kapa haka rōpū Te Pae Kura o Rehua, who will be performing at the upcoming 21st Puanga Kapa Haka Festival! Ngā mihi nui to Tiana and Neetta for sharing their kōrero about their journey to the stage.

Looking forward to cheering you all on! 🎉

There’s a common reason why Tui Ora kaimahi are pushing themselves out of their comfort zone to get on stage...

22/10/2025

We’re closed on Labour Day (27 October) whānau, but if you need some hauora support while we are closed, Practice Plus is available to you.

This is a virtual appointment with a Doctor, and they’re available from 8am – 8pm. They can privately and securely help treat most medical needs, sicknesses or injuries and provide treatment and prescriptions direct to your preferred pharmacy.

An appointment can be booked online www.practiceplus.nz/book/ or by calling 0800 7722 7587.

16/10/2025

Nau mai to new Whaitara Health Centre GP, Dr Tony!

Joining us in September, it's been fantastic to have Dr Tony on board. If you haven't had the chance to meet him yet, read on to find out a bit more about him and his journey to Taranaki🙂

At the end of a two-week holiday in New Zealand with his wife Laura back in 2017, Dr Tony flew...

07/10/2025

Amazing mahi from Health Improvement Practitioner Tracey!!💚

Have a listen to her kōrero through this link (click through to 12:50 minutes in for the start of her interview): https://accessmedia.nz/programme-page?PID=00c73c1a-82df-4fb8-9ac0-34d5505fd987

Ngā mihi nui to Jamie Allen and his Access Radio Taranaki show Abundant Awesomeness / Hauora - for bringing this important kōrero to our ears.

This Mental Health Awareness Week, take some time for yourself and listen to Health Improvement Practitioner Tracey’s kōrero with Jamie Allen on his Abundant Awesomeness/Hauroa radio show. Perhaps while on a hīkoi to get those steps in while you listen😊

Tracey and Jamie delve into a lot of helpful and varied kōrero about her Health Improvement Practitioner (HIP) role and previous mahi experience, how you can access HIP support, her involvement with Hīkoi and Kōrero and the Kōia group, as well as tips and tricks to improve your hauora and mindset.

You can hear Tracey’s kōrero from 12:50 minutes in.
https://ondemand.accessmedia.nz/StationFolder/taranaki/2025_08_19_TT_AbundantAwesomenessWithTracy.mp3

If you’re interested to meet with a Health Improvement Practitioner, it’s a free service offered at Tui Ora Hauroa ā-Whānau in Ngāmotu and Waitara thanks to Pinnacle Health. Call 0800 TUI ORA to find out more.

29/09/2025

23/09/2025

Te reo Māori was an unspoken language in Tui Ora’s Dawn Campbell’s whare when she was growing up. She knew...

11/09/2025

Ngā mihi nui to Sport Taranaki and Green Prescription Taranaki (Rongoā Kākāriki) for bringing ‘Movement is Medicine” to our Whaitara community!

This is a free four-week wānanga to help your hauora through movement, nutrition and creating lasting positive lifestyle changes.

If you’d like to attend, book in a time with our Health Improvement Practitioner, Registered Nurses or your GP to be referred.