As we celebrate another Te Wiki o te Reo Māori (Māori Language Week), the team at New Zealand Health Group is excited to introduce a new initiative which puts te reo Māori front and centre all year round. We understand that language isn’t just a way of making ourselves understood – language lies at the heart of a culture, and contains truths, understandings, and ways of seeing the world which are wholly unique. This is Read more…
New Zealand Health Group is leading innovation in the home and community healthcare sector and ensuring thousands of Kiwis are instantly kept up to date with last-minute changes to their care with Aotearoa’s first support worker AI-powered scheduling assistant. The technology manages the time-consuming task of urgently finding replacement support workers to fill last-minute shift changes and is saving our busy Customer Care teams around 30 hours every day and finding cover for more Read more…
PIVOT by Explore, a new early intervention programme specifically designed for New Zealanders who are not addicts but who struggle with the impact alcohol and drugs is having on their daily lives, has launched. Ray Finch, General Manager of leading wellbeing organisation Explore, said that by offering the right type of support at the right time to the people who need it, PIVOT aims to address an urgent and significant unmet need. “An estimated 1.2 Read more…
Three of Aotearoa’s leading mental health and wellbeing services are joining together to make it easier for more New Zealanders to access their support. Gains Wellness and Psychology, Mental Health NZ and Explore Specialist Advice are coming together under one new name – Explore Hāpainga Ora. Explore Hāpainga Ora is part of New Zealand Health Group – Aotearoa’s leading provider of home and community care services – and provides wrap-around mental health and wellbeing services. Read more…
A revolutionary board game designed around a Māori concept of hauora (holistic wellbeing) is being introduced to the world today: ‘Taurite’ (te reo: ‘balance’) was created by the Cultural Services Team at New Zealand Health Group with the aim of getting people thinking about hauora holistically. The game has each player taking on the role of a particular character attempting to build a perfectly balanced hauora whare, where all the various aspects of wellbeing are Read more…
Individuals who are committed to advancing health equity outcomes in their communities are encouraged to apply for the 2023 Hiwa-i-te-rangi Māori Health Leadership Scholarship which is worth a total of $20,000. Now in its third year, the scholarship, which is offered by Aotearoa New Zealand’s leading home and community support services provider, New Zealand Health Group, is designed to support more Māori to be in decision-making leadership roles, and who are on a pathway to making Read more…
New Zealand Health Group (NZHG) is strengthening our commitment to amplify the voices of our disabled communities with the establishment of Whakapuāwai (our disability transformation taskforce). Jane Kelley, Chief Executive of NZHG, said the members of the newly formed taskforce all have lived experience of disability and will help ensure NZHG offers more choice and control for disabled people over the support they receive, so they can plan for the lives they want. The taskforce Read more…
The New Zealand Health Group team is a 10,000 strong team and our training needs are wide and varied. The Review of Vocational Education (RoVE) has been going on for the past three years and we have continued to have a very close watching brief of the changes in play. One of the key focus areas of RoVE was to support employers more to enable them to focus on their kaimahi who are engaged in Read more…
Jane Kelley, CEO of Aotearoa’s largest home and community support services provider, New Zealand Health Group, welcomes proposals that will encourage nurses to work in New Zealand, saying that proactive policies are essential to alleviate the nationwide nursing shortage. “Every day, we see the significant impact our understaffed healthcare sector has on the hardworking nurses and the Kiwis who rely on them for care and support,” said Ms Kelley. “Regardless of how many nurses have Read more…
Source: Newsroom Boosting home and community-based care was meant to be at the core of the 2021 health reforms, especially for older people. What happened? The Government decided it needed (yet) another review. For most of her career, Jane Kelley has worked on the ‘public’ side of the wary public-private divide that exists in healthcare. She comes from a public service lineage: her dad spent 45 years working for NZ Police, her mum was a theatre Read more…