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Bridging distances for better health Parliament Buildings, 1 Museum Street, Pipitea, WellingtonMonday 6 May7am – 6pm In 2016 we successfully brought together local organisations which provide a much-needed mobile health service to communities around New Zealand. We...

There’s nothing like stepping off a plane, landing your feet on foreign land and going exploring. The chosen holiday for Tobias Oellinger, an adventurous student studying medicine in Berlin, Germany, was to jump on the opportunity to dip his toes into something a...

Read the latest Mobile Health Group newsletter - On the Move - May 2024.

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Mobile Health Group and Mercy Radiology are positioned to increase patient accessibility to PET-CT scans by delivering Mobile Imaging - Australasia’s first mobile PET-CT. This will see thousands of cancer patients benefit from the arrival of new mobile diagnostic...

We are pleased to provide an update on the progress of the four winners of last year’s Mobile Health and Hauora Taiwhenua scholarship. Lexi McQuaig, Seba Metzler, Ella St John and Emma Billings all embarked on their university journeys with a thirst for knowledge and...

Meet Chris Heath (pictured above: Chris stands with his 10,000th patient in Whangarei in early May), one of our anaesthetic technicians who has dedicated his career to providing high quality care onboard the mobile surgical unit. Since 2002, he has served as a skilled...

During April, May and June, the clinical team worked with Te Whatu Ora Te Toka Tumai Auckland to complete a blitz to reduce the waiting list of paediatric patients needing essential dentistry care. For 10 intensive weeks - three weeks in Whangarei and seven weeks in...

Once a year the clinical staff come together for one week at the Christchurch office for an annual meeting. It was a full week of staff education, training, wellbeing, networking and is completely dedicated and focussed on the staff’s professional development. This...

Visitors to the Hauora Taiwhenua Health and Wellbeing Hub are armed with better health knowledge after engaging with exhibitors and taking advantage of free health checks. This year 25,000 visitors stepped into the health hub during the four-day event and prioritised...

Waikato Hospital in Hamilton was chosen as the location to hold a one-day Acute Nursing Assessment and Management course for rural graduate nurses. Twenty-four nurses from rural hospitals and practices from around the Waikato came together for a day with our post...

Mobile Health has once again partnered with Hauora Taiwhenua Rural NZ to offer rural youth financial support in pursuit of their health studies. There are four scholarships available (with at least one targeted at Māori/Pasifika students), each valued at $5,000 and...

Get an insight into the life of three dedicated practice nurses working on the Mobile Surgical Unit - Te Waka Hauora, serving their rural community.  As the Mobile Surgical Unit traverses the countryside, these practice nurses become beacons of reassurance, creating a...

Recently, the Mobile Surgical Unit – Te Waka Hauora stayed one weekend in Gore to complete additional dental surgeries to reduce the patient waiting list. The clinical team worked through the weekend and completed 16 dental surgeries on children aged between three and...

(Pictured above: Lizzie Stevenson on her last day on the surgical unit. "The unit is parked in the same location in Balclutha as when I saw it for the first time!" she says). As a medical student, gaining practical experience is an integral part of the learning...