We provide a wide range of services for Women, Youth and Children both across the public health system and within the community. Hospital services include hospital, day patient, outpatient or community-based secondary level services in the following specialties:

• Medical and surgical
• Maternity and obstetrics
• Child health
• Disability support
• Mental health and alcohol and drug
• Forensic mental health for the region
• Associated clinical support and community-based support services

Community services (link to “Our Community” page) may be funded by your Health Board or they may be funded directly from the Ministry of Health or Education, or another Government Department.  An example of a Ministry funded service is Lead Maternity Carer’s (LMC’s) who are paid by the Ministry of Health. Primary Care Organisations, (Link to Our Community- Primary Care and GP’s) are funded by the District Health Board but they may also be funded directly for specific programmes.

Whanganui Hospital and Health Services operate from three facilities:

• Whanganui Hospital
• Waimarino Health Centre
• Rangitikei Health Centre

More than a third of the district health board resident population lives outside Whanganui City and therefore some distance from the base hospital in Whanganui.  We provide visiting specialist and outreach community-based services to its rural communities.  We also offer support for travel assistance through administration of the National Travel and Accommodation Fund.

Whanganui Hospital and Health Services work alongside, and in support of, primary providers such as general practitioners and independent midwives.  It also maintains close links with the other secondary and tertiary hospitals that provide care to the population.

These services are provided across the continuum of health care settings: 

• The person’s own home or a community setting such as a marae
• A Primary Health Care setting such as general practice, a dental practice, or a pharmacy
• A secondary hospital, that is, a hospital which provides outpatient, day patient and inpatient specialist level services
• A Tertiary Hospital, that is, a hospital which provides specialist level services that are only provided regionally or nationally