An award-winning health and social services organisation serving the Hutt Valley
29/09/2025
It’s always a pleasure to have our Pasifika nursing students come through on placement, the next generation of Pacific health leaders developing expert skills, building lifelong connections, and becoming part of the Pacific Health Service Hutt Valley aiga. 🙌🏽
Sera Tufuga from Te Pūkenga’s journey is a great example. A young mother, daughter, and sister who reminds us that with heart, determination, and the love and support of family, anything is possible. Her dedication reflects the strength of our Pasifika people and the bright future ahead for Pacific health leadership. 🩺
We wish Sera all the very best for her state finals next month. Her strong work ethic, humility, and eagerness to learn have already shown us the incredible nurse she is becoming. To all our Pasifika students, if you want to make a difference in your community, start studying now for a future in healthcare or social services. 👏
27/09/2025
In my last week in Bali I met with a Javanese Traditional Healer 🧘
🌎 Wellbeing without Borders - TUPU OLA 🌎
💆♀️Other than having (Samoan) Fofō, (Māori) Mirimiri and (Japanese origin) Reiki, I have never tried other traditional healing practices with a Traditional healer.
I searched high and low for a traditional Balian healer and was blessed to find Fajar here. Who is actually not a Balian, but a similar healer who hails from Java (another island in Indonesia 🇮🇩)!
🧠 From Fajar I received a palm reading, massage and knowledge about traditional Javanese healing. Some include the ingredients he uses in the medicines he creates.
These are some of the ingredients he gives his patients with colds and flus, headaches and heart problems 🫚🍋👃🧘
Have any of you partaken in traditional healing therapies? Even in your own culture? Some things my Nana swore by were Tiger balm, Lemon, Lauki and good ol Vicks lol
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26/09/2025
Pacific Health Service Hutt Valley provides support for breast screening, we can assist with booking your appointment and help remove barriers that may prevent you from accessing your mammogram.
💡Did you know? Starting October 2025, the free breast screening age will begin extending up to 74 years across Aotearoa. By 2029, all women up to 74 will be able to get free checks every 2 years.
What this means for our Women:
💁♀️If you turn 70 on or after 1 Oct 2025, you can get free mammograms every 2 years until 75.
💁♀️If you are 70–74 before 1 Oct 2025, you can have one last screen at 74 (if booked before turning 75).
📣To all our Pasifika sisters, aunties, mamas - book your appointment today. Protect your health and your families future. Regular mammograms are quick, free, and life saving. Early detection gives us more time together. 🙏🏼
🚨Reminder Tonight - Pacific Health Service Hutt Valley is extending clinic hours to support our local health system and ensure Pasifika families can access timely, community-based care. We’re here to ease pressure on Emergency Departments, After Hours Clinics, and General Practices, providing trusted care close to home.🌿
Joining us is Cara Foothead, Podiatrist and owner of Avalon Podiatry, who will be onsite to provide expert foot care for our aiga. If you have diabetes but don’t qualify for funded foot care, come and see Cara. Services include:
-Diabetic foot care, ingrown toenails, bunions, unexplained foot pain, and other foot or ankle issues
-Support for mobility and maintaining an active, healthy lifestyle
This Free walk-in service is available to all members of the community who are unwell or unable to access healthcare during regular clinic hours.
Services available:
✔ Baseline Health Checks
Including blood pressure, blood sugar, oxygen saturation, heart rate, and point-of-care lab test (HbA1c, lipids)
✔ Immunisations & Well Child Checks
All age-appropriate vaccinations and thorough child health assessments
✔ Rapid Testing
On-the-spot results for COVID-19, RSV, flu A & B, strep throat and more
✔ Acute Care
Treatment for colds, infections, minor injuries, asthma, and stomach issues
✔ Women’s Health
HPV self-testing, cervical screening, and urgent contraception services
✔ Long-term Condition Support
Diabetes Annual Reviews, cardiovascular risk assessments, and repeat medications
✔ Paediatric
Support for fever, rashes, ear infections, and minor injuries in children
✔ On-the-Spot Treatment
Immediate diagnosis, prescriptions, and referrals where required
⚠️Please note, This service is not for emergencies.
For life-threatening conditions, call 111 or go to your nearest Emergency Department.
24/09/2025
Almost three months in, The Brothaz Hutt Valley Movement is already making waves, and we’re only just getting started! 👏
Led by Derek, Tonu’u, and Antonio, this campaign - a collaboration between Pacific Health Service Hutt Valley and Hemisphere is dedicated to empowering Pasifika men of all ages. It creates a space to connect, talanoa, reflect, and grow in strength and brotherhood.
Brothaz Hutt Valley is not just another digital platform, it’s a movement to break cycles and uplift our men through open conversations, shared lived experiences, and culturally grounded support.
Each week, we feature stories from local Pasifika champions who generously share their health journeys and stories that inspire, challenge, and uplift. Their voices remind us that prioritising wellbeing is a sign of resilience, not weakness.
🎬 Join us Live at Moana Babies
Come along as we weave together culture and wellbeing, learn the beautiful art of Rāranga Harakeke with Edith Rolls from Te Whatu Ora 🌿
23/09/2025
🎬 Join us Live at Moana Babies
Come along as we weave together culture and wellbeing, learn the beautiful art of Rāranga with Harakeke while also discovering why Cervical Screening is so important for our health. 🌿
22/09/2025
Pacific Health Service Hutt Valley is excited to continue strengthening our partnerships with Pacific communities of practice. This includes our Cook Islands community here in the Hutt Valley. As part of our partnership to promote health and wellbeing. We recently, joined Oire Te Whanganui-a-Tara's Ura Fit activity as part of their preparations for the Te Maeva Nui 2025, the biggest Cook Islands festival in the world, taking place in Auckland next month. 🇨🇰
It was a powerful opportunity to connect with both participants and the many supporters in attendance, where our staff shared meaningful conversations around health and wellbeing. We also heard from Te Hau Winitana, owner of Inano Dance, whose years of cultural dance leadership are helping prepare her team for this incredible journey.
We are excited to walk alongside our Cook Islands families, championing health, fitness with a strong focus on our Pacific ways of movement and being active like tradtional dance, ensuring positive we keep our communities moving and active in the Hutt Valley. 🙌
20/09/2025
🎙️More than just your Tribe🎙️
🌎 Wellbeing without Borders - TUPU OLA 🌎
🗣️For today's Tupu Ola Talks, I spoke to about his culture, well-being and more! But the message in this video encompasses the whole reason for TUPU OLA itself!
🛐Religion is a big part of Indonesian culture and their overall wellbeing.
🙏 For Theo, love and the values of his religion shouldn't just be reserved for Sunday, or for just the people of your own culture or Tribe.
Love is universal, understanding differences in other cultures or religions, and loving them regardless - that is his belief, and that is part of how he finds his happiness (as well as more that will be posted in another Tupu Ola Talks reel!!). ♥️
🤷Doing this does not mean you have to become that other culture or convert to other religions, but it frees your conscious from holding your guard up against it, and taking that weight off your back, allowing you to love more, and feel more 🙂↕️
As we know in our well-being structures like Fono Fale, or Te Whare Tapa Whā, our well-being isn't just sustained through our physical or mental state. Our "healthiest" selves also includes our spirituality and community, yes we can still prioritize OUR village, but how sees it is, that loving and accepting further from our tribe only STRENGTHENS these pillars in our fale further 🙏♥️💪
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18/09/2025
We are so proud of our Pasifika leaders who are stepping up for City Wide roles that will shape the future of our communities at large. Your courage, strength, and determination inspire us all, and most importantly, they light the way for the next generation.🌺
As the Samoan proverb reminds us, Tautua nei mo sou manuia a taeao - Serve now for a better tomorrow. It speaks to the heart of Pacific leadership: serving with humility and purpose today so that our children and the generations to come can thrive.
And as the Tongan saying teaches us, Holo pē tu'u, he ko e ngalu 'e fasi - Stand firm, for the waves will break. It is a call to resilience and courage, reminding us that no matter how strong the storms, they will pass if we remain steadfast and true.
We see you, we believe in you - grounded in the wisdom of our ancestors and uplifted by the unshakable strength of our Pasifika spirit. Good luck to everyone!
🗳️ Now it’s our turn to step up - vote, have your say, and help shape the future. Be part of the change and let your voice be heard.
17/09/2025
Meitaki Maata Andre from Wgtn Rugby League for your words of encouragement for our Brothaz Hutt Valley campaign, To all our men out there, we encourage you to speak up, check in with your brothers, and share what’s going on with your health or on your mind. You don’t have to go through it alone we’re here to help, so take action and get the support you need.
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Leading the development and maintenance of a healthy Pacific Community in the Hutt Valley
Pacific Health Services Hutt Valley is an independent health service working closely with our Pasefika community of 12,000 people in the Hutt Valley north of Wellington. We provide community engagement, development, support, health services and social services. Our focus is A Vibrant Healthy Pasefika community in the Hutt Valley. We have delivered value to Pasefika people since 1999.
Our Pasefika family-centred approach reinforces family strengths, provides appropriate support and empowers families to live well with greater control over their lives. We are very well connected as a core part of our community and our approach is based on socio-cultural evidence about what works. This includes working through established community networks and a focus on faith-led approaches to service delivery. The nine explicit premises from the Family Centre Report offer a good description of our Pasefika family-centred approach.
Our services are very well regarded and we achieve highly on client satisfaction and quality measures. We have built up a range of health and social services in response to community need. We work with Hutt Valley DHB, Te Awakairangi PHO and other providers.
Our services and projects include:
Family Well-being and Social Service
Community Engagement & Development Project
Healthy Lifestyles Pasefika Programme
Family Against Obesity / Pasefika Choice Project
Mobile Nursing Service
Well-child Service
Breast & Cervical Screening
Rheumatic Fever Campaign
Membership of the Central Pacific Collective
Capacity and Capability Development
We are particularly proud of the following achievements in the last three years:
Pacific Touch tournament to bring people together around the healthy lifestyles messages
Mobile Nurse-led clinics as a better and more accessible way to provide services
Family Against Obesity / Pasefika choice has increased awareness and encouraged our people to take action
Hutt Valley DHB Community Services Award
First to be audited for Quality jointly by our funders
Preferred provider status with the Ministry of Social Development
Positive service evaluation and extension of funder contracts
Our innovative Faith-led Project has shown its value and has resulted in the Ministry of Health changing its funding parameters
Development of Governance through Board professional development with the Institute of Directors (funded by the Ministry of Social Development).
Our funding partners include: Hutt Valley DHB; Ministry of Health; Ministry of Social Development; and the new Ministry for Vulnerable Children. Over the next three years, we will deepen these partnerships and add new partnerships. We will develop our community relationships to attract greater levels of charitable donation and support. Consolidating our service offering will also allow us to develop partnerships with philanthropic organisations with an interest in progressing our vision for our Pasefika community in the Hutt Valley.
Our Board is made up of representatives from the main Pasefika groups in the Hutt Valley, co-opted representatives (e.g. representing Youth) plus independent directors as required to provide the skills and experience the Board requires. We will continue to develop our governance capability to take us forward and deliver on our purpose.
Our staff are passionate about our community and bring the skills and experience needed to deliver quality service. Over the next three years, we will continue to develop our service and leadership skills and invest in technology to assist staff in their work. Our current staffing is 11 (9FTE).
Over the next three years, we will consolidate the range of services we provide for our people. This is about filling current gaps in the services we offer and deepening our quality and evaluation processes. We will work with our partners to maximise the benefit to our people from available funding and ensure that the services we provide also meet this test.
Staff, Board and Funders work together to achieve the value for our community
