Turanga Health

Turanga Health offers a range of wraparound community health services for all ages. It's services such as fitness programmes, classes for new mums, and support for older people, are accessed by around 3,000 Mori and non-Mori living within the tribal boundaries of Rongowhakaata, Ngi Tmanuhiri, and Te Aitanga a Mhaki. The health organisation operates from a campus in Derby St and a general practice in Te Karaka which has just under 1600 patients enrolled. Turanga Health has one general practitioner, 10 nurses, and 30 community workers and kaiwhina. Successful Turanga Health programmes include the T Mahi workplace wellness programme. In the year ended June 2020 mobile health staff provided wellness checks for 203 workers at 15 workplaces from its state-of-the-art mobile clinic. Twenty-three individuals were referred for nurse follow up.