May 17, 2021 | News
Having seen the big blue Mobile Surgical Unit – Te Waka Hauora on the road just one year earlier on one of its regular five-week circuits of rural New Zealand, David Mitchell did not anticipate he would one day be having surgery on it. But last year, he swapped...
Feb 25, 2021 | News
Rarely do high school students know what they want to do when they grow up, but when Tim Colson spent time aboard the Mobile Surgical Unit – Te Waka Hauora back in 2014 while in school, the seed was already planted that his future was going to be in medicine. Tim...
Jan 12, 2021 | News
You may have spotted the big blue mobile surgical unit as it travels up and down the country, but you may not know the concept for sharing mobile came from a visionary man, Stuart Gowland, who will become a companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for his...
Dec 16, 2020 | News
Rewind to 2005, Mobile Health started the Continuous Professional Development programme – a range of education sessions designed to upskill and support health professionals living and working in rural New Zealand. The topic of the first ever study session was on… wait...
Nov 24, 2020 | News
(Pictured above: Rachel Matthews assisting the dentist on the mobile surgical unit) Rachel Matthews is a medical student studying in Timaru and worked on the Mobile Surgical Unit – Te Waka Hauora as part of her Trainee Intern Elective for her final year of...
