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On September 13th, Mobile Health celebrated 1,000 patients onboard the Mobile Surgical Unit - Te Waka Hauora in Levin! Our Chief Executive, Mark Eager was onsite to greet our 1,000th patient, Liam who received dental treatment and was gifted a Warehouse voucher. We...

Mobile Health is partnering with Hauora Taiwhenua Rural Health Network to offer our rural youth financial support in their pursuit of health studies. The four scholarships valued at $5,000 each, will be offered to any rural youth entering their first year of full-time...

Mobile Health presents our Annual Report for 2022. We are delighted to have successfully completed another year - one which sees Mobile Health celebrate its 20th anniversary - a milestone for our organisation that has successfully treated almost 30,000 patients since...

Mobile Health Board Member Ian Tulloch, also known as ‘Inky’ has had a long career in local government, business, and the community. He was a member of Mataura Borough Council for six years and Mayor for six years until 1989. Inky was also Mayor of Gore District...

At 11-years-old, Cara Enright’s grandfather became very unwell. As she stood by him in one of the most vulnerable periods of his life, her admiration for him grew stronger. During this time, Cara was exposed to health practitioners who cared for her grandfather -...

Yesterday the Mobile Surgical Unit settled in to enjoy the beautiful sunrise in our new rural location of Geraldine. The team was warmly welcomed by our site hosts Mckenzie Healthcare who were extremely helpful in ensuring our first day was a success. Geraldine is our...

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...

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 huge amount of...

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 driver,...

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...

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 trees,...

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...

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 the...

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...

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...