Mar 31, 2022 | News
MEDIA RELEASE Mobile Health celebrates 20th year serving rural communities This month Mobile Health celebrated its 20th anniversary. A milestone for the organisation who have successfully treated over 29,000 patients on the Mobile Surgical unit. “It’s a good time to...
Mar 30, 2022 | News
Twenty years ago, Chris Heath joined Mobile Health expecting to be on the road for six months. “I couldn’t have imagined being here all these years later,” Chris says. “We were a small organisation finding our feet using ingenuity, flexibility with a...
Mar 29, 2022 | News
In the summer of 1980 in America, country music singer, Willie Nelson hit the airwaves with his top-tapping song – On the Road Again, becoming one of his most recognised songs. The song about life on the road struck a chord with country music fan and truck...
Nov 5, 2021 | News
When we posed the question “Would you encourage other students to work on the mobile surgical unit?” to Jeremy Chua, a sixth-year medical student at the University of Otago in Dunedin, he reacted with, “Absolutely! It’s an unparalleled experience that you will likely...
Oct 13, 2021 | News
There are many issues facing our environment, so this year we have contributed to the sponsorship of planting approximately 1500 – 1600 plants in the Cranford Basin Reserve in Christchurch. Trees for Canterbury supplied the plants made up of Kahikatea, cabbage...
Jul 15, 2021 | News
After two years since the last Fieldays event, reconnecting was better than ever at the Health and Wellbeing Hub. This year the health hub at Fieldays in Hamilton was located at a permanent building and had more than 33,000 visitors through the doors, up from 25,000...