Advocacy Services

The Health and Disability Commissioner is an independent agency set up to: promote and protect the rights of consumers to use Health and Disability services; help resolve problems between consumers and providers of Health and Disability services; improve quality of Health Care and Disability services. They can be contacted on Phone: 09 373 1060 or Freephone: 0800 112 2333.

Carers Guide
Guide for Carers provided by the Ministry of Social Development

Document Format

Most documents are available in Acrobat (PDF) format. Some documents are also available in other formats (doc, xls, html etc.) or as a printed version (hard copy). Please note, due to cost, a different format or printed version may not be available.

To request a different format or printed version, please contact the Te Whatu Ora Health NZ - MidCentral Communications Unit.

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