Child Development Centre is a disability service for children and young people aged 0-15 years, living in the Waikato District Health Board area.

Disabilities may include physical, intellectual or sensory disabilities or Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) or a combination of these.  Services may be provided in outpatient clinics, the home or community settings.

Description

Child Development Centre is a child-centred and family-focused service for children who have, or are suspected of having, developmental problems such as:

• developmental delay or intellectual disability
• autism spectrum disorder
• neurological conditions, e.g. cerebral palsy, developmental co-ordination disorders, dyspraxia
• syndromes and/or behaviour problems associated with developmental delay
• neurodegenerative disorders
• motor skill delay

Its services include, where appropriate:

• comprehensive assessments by specific professions and/or multidisciplinary teams
• individual programmes for children with identified developmental needs, and their caregivers
• medical assessment and follow up of children with diagnosed or suspected developmental concerns

The centre has a multi-disciplinary team including:

• psychologists
• occupational therapists
• physiotherapists
• speech language therapist
• social worker
• developmental paediatricians
• visiting neurodevelopmental therapists
• developmental service coordinator

More detailed descriptions of the services and clinics we offer.

Location

222 Pembroke Street, Hamilton (across the road from the Waikato Hospital Emergency Department)

Contact information

Phone 07 839 8709

Fax 07 839 8766

Referral information

Child Development Centre (CDC) accepts referrals from health services, education services and community/welfare agencies. The referral must be written with the knowledge and consent of the child’s parents/carers.

More details of our services and clinics, including any specific entry criteria. 

Referrals must be in writing, clearly describing the developmental concerns and supported with any other reports or information. 

Referrals for school aged children where learning, social or behavioural difficulties are part of the reason for your referral: you MUST also complete Section B of the referral form, or attach our School Information Form (see below). Please contact the Child Development Centre if there are any problems with getting the school to provide this information.

• CDC referral form 
• CDC School Information Form 
• CDC referral guidelines for school-aged children (as at October 2015)
• CDC referral guidelines for pre-school children (as at October 2015)
• Cerebral Palsy Clinical Practice Guideline

Referrals should be posted or faxed to:Referrals should be posted or faxed to:
Referral Coordination Centre
Waikato Hospital
Private Bag 3200
Hamilton 3240
Fax: 07 839 8817

BreastScreen Aotearoa is a free national breast screening programme that checks women between 45 and 69 years for early breast cancer. The programme aims to reduce the number of women who die from breast cancer.

You can have a free screening mammogram every two years through BreastScreen Aotearoa if you meet the following criteria:

• Are aged 45 – 69 years
• Have no symptoms of breast cancer
• Have not had a mammogram in the last 12 months
• Are not pregnant or breastfeeding
• Are eligible for public health services in New Zealand
  (Details of eligibility are available at www.moh.govt.nz/eligibility)

Enrolling and booking an appointment:

• Freephone 0800 270 200 to enrol and/or book an appointment
• You can enrol when you visit your GP. H/she may also send you a letter to advise that you may be eligible to join the BreastScreen Aotearoa programme.
• Enrol online by visiting the BreastScreen Aotearoa website
  If you have been previously screened by BreastScreen Aotearoa you will receive a letter inviting you for another mammogram when you are due.

Mammograms are breast x-rays which:

• can show changes in the breast before anything can be seen or felt. In most cases the changes will not be cancer.
• can detect breast cancer early, which means a very good chance of successful treatment
• are particularly effective in women 50 years and over who have mammograms every two years
• can detect about 75 percent of unsuspected cancers in women under 50 and 85 percent in women over 50
• cannot prevent you getting breast cancer and cannot always prevent death from breast cancer.

Some breast cancers develop during the time between screening mammograms, so it is important that you are breast aware. If you notice any breast symptoms (changes that are not normal for you), see your doctor as soon as possible.

Symptoms could include:

• a new lump or thickening
• a change in breast shape or size
• pain in the breast that is unusual
• puckering or dimpling of the skin
• any change in one nipple, such as:
• • a turned-in nipple
  • a discharge that occurs without squeezing
• a rash or reddening of the skin that appears only on the breast

Service hours

By appointment

Location

Mammograms are provided at the Breast Care Centre, Waikato Hospital, Anglesea Women’s Health, Hamilton, or on one of our two mobile breast screening units. A mobile visits every town within the Waikato and some of the remote areas of the Bay of Plenty and Lakes District Health Board regions.

Contact information

Breast Screen Midland
Ph: 0800 270 200

Breast Care Centre: Waikato Hospital
Ph: (07) 834 3665 or ext 97665

BreastScreen Midland GP Data Coordinator
Ph: 021 356 714

Improving access to healthcare for everyone

Waikato District Health Board and the Waikato University have been working on innovative healthcare solutions to improve access and meet future demands for everyone in the community. Through this partnership a proposal for a new medical school based in the Waikato has been submitted to the government.
 

Waikato Chief Executive Nigel Murray on why we need a medical school:

We are not training enough doctors, nor the right doctors and also not distributing them to meet the needs of all New Zealanders.

It’s been nearly 50 years since the last medical school was created in New Zealand. In this time our provincial and rural health status has not improved as much as it should have and access continues to be a growing problem, yet existing medical training programmes have not changed to meet these needs.

It is time for a new radical approach in New Zealand to tackle these provincial and rural health problems.

 

What is being proposed?

The Waikato Medical School will offer a medical degree programme which reflects international best practice and is unique in New Zealand.  Specifically it will be:

1. Graduate entry only (requiring an undergraduate degree from any university in any subject, compared to the current requirement to take health sciences at Auckland or Otago Universities to have the option to enter medicine)
2. Four years in length rather than the six years currently required at Auckland and Otago universities
3. Community engaged, involving communities outside the tertiary hospital centres in the design of the programme, selection of students, and training of students
4. Proactive in adding to existing clinical placement opportunities for medical students across the Midland health region (Bay of Plenty, Lakes, Tairawhiti and Waikato District Health Boards)
5. An opportunity to build a new medical school in genuine partnership with Māori and with other high health needs communities.

Read the full list of Waikato Medical School FAQs .

In other initiative to improve healthcare access for everyone, Waikato DHB also recently launched  SmartHealth , a free online healthcare service for people in the Waikato which connects them with a range of health services using a smart phone, tablet device or home computer.

Please click on the date below to view the agenda.

2017 Agendas

Historical Health Waikato Advisory Committee agendas

If you require a historical agenda that's not yet been listed on the website, please email the request to  webmaster@waikatodhb.health.nz

Please click on the date below to view the agenda.

2017 Agendas

Historical Community & Public Health Advisory Committee agendas

Historical Disability Support Advisory Committee agendas

If you require a historical agenda that's not yet been listed on the website, please email the request to  webmaster@waikatodhb.health.nz

Please check the agenda for the timing and venue of meetings as they do vary.

Meeting schedule for 2017

Highlights ongoing work, information and education events that will make things easier for primary care health professionals and their patients.

• Issue 11 - May 2017

• Issue 10 - February 2017

• Issue 9 - November 2016

• Issue 8 - October 2016

• Issue 7 - September 2016

• Issue 6 - June 2016

• Issue 5 - April 2016

• Issue 4 - February 2016

Contacts:

• Damian Tomic, Clinical Director Primary and Integrated Care, Waikato DHB -  damian.tomic@waikatodhb.health.nz
• Fiona Campbell, GP Liaison - fiona.campbell@waikatodhb.health.nz 
• Angela Fairweather, GP Liaison - angela.fairweather@waikato.health.nz
• Mark Taylor, GP Liaison - mark.taylor@waikatodhb.health.nz 
• Sheril-Ann Wilson -  sheril-ann.wilson@waikatodhb.health.nz

Community Health Forums are made up of local people representing specific geographical regions. They support and advise the Waikato District Health Board about local health issues, activities and priorities for their community. They are also a mechanism for ensuring communities are kept involved in and informed of Waikato DHB activities and issues.

Members of the public from those areas are always welcome to attend.
See below for the next meeting in your area.

Child Development Centre is a disability service for children and young people aged 0-15 years, living in the Waikato District Health Board area.

Disabilities may include physical, intellectual or sensory disabilities or Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) or a combination of these.  Services may be provided in outpatient clinics, the home or community settings.

Description

Child Development Centre is a child-centred and family-focused service for children who have, or are suspected of having, developmental problems such as:

• developmental delay or intellectual disability
• autism spectrum disorder
• neurological conditions, e.g. cerebral palsy, developmental co-ordination disorders, dyspraxia
• syndromes and/or behaviour problems associated with developmental delay
• neurodegenerative disorders
• motor skill delay

Its services include, where appropriate:

• comprehensive assessments by specific professions and/or multidisciplinary teams
• individual programmes for children with identified developmental needs, and their caregivers
• medical assessment and follow up of children with diagnosed or suspected developmental concerns

The centre has a multi-disciplinary team including:

• psychologists
• occupational therapists
• physiotherapists
• speech language therapist
• social worker
• developmental paediatricians
• visiting neurodevelopmental therapists
• developmental service coordinator

More detailed descriptions of the services and clinics we offer.

Location

222 Pembroke Street, Hamilton (across the road from the Waikato Hospital Emergency Department)

Contact information

Phone 07 839 8709

Fax 07 839 8766

Referral information

Child Development Centre (CDC) accepts referrals from health services, education services and community/welfare agencies. The referral must be written with the knowledge and consent of the child’s parents/carers.

More details of our services and clinics, including any specific entry criteria. 

Referrals must be in writing, clearly describing the developmental concerns and supported with any other reports or information. 

Referrals for school aged children where learning, social or behavioural difficulties are part of the reason for your referral: you MUST also complete Section B of the referral form, or attach our School Information Form (see below). Please contact the Child Development Centre if there are any problems with getting the school to provide this information.

• CDC referral form 
• CDC School Information Form 
• CDC referral guidelines for school-aged children (as at October 2015)
• CDC referral guidelines for pre-school children (as at October 2015)
• Cerebral Palsy Clinical Practice Guideline

Referrals should be posted or faxed to:Referrals should be posted or faxed to:
Referral Coordination Centre
Waikato Hospital
Private Bag 3200
Hamilton 3240
Fax: 07 839 8817

Hamilton Sexual Health is a free-to-all and confidential specialist service.

Description

Sexual Health offers:

• diagnosis and management of sexually transmitted infections (STIs)
• diagnosis and management of other related genital problems including genital skin conditions and genital pain
• pregnancy testing and emergency contraception
• testing and treatment of HIV/AIDS
• free HPV immunisation if eligible for the funded vaccine
• help with sexuality and gender identity issues, including transgender care
• information on sexual health matters – ask us any question you have about your sexual health
• free condoms
• friendly & non-judgmental staff

We do not offer regular contraceptive services; please see your GP or other primary care provider, such as Family Planning, for this.

Location

3 Ohaupo Road
Hamilton

Contact information

Office hours are Monday to Friday 8am – 4. 30pm.
Clinics are held at differing times  - please ring for an appointment time.
Phone: 07 839 8732 (appointments)

Useful resources and websites

• Just the factswww.itchyburnybits.com/stis
• www.facebook.com/itchyburnybits

Improving access to healthcare for everyone

Waikato District Health Board and the Waikato University have been working on innovative healthcare solutions to improve access and meet future demands for everyone in the community. Through this partnership a proposal for a new medical school based in the Waikato has been submitted to the government.
 

Waikato Chief Executive Nigel Murray on why we need a medical school:

We are not training enough doctors, nor the right doctors and also not distributing them to meet the needs of all New Zealanders.

It’s been nearly 50 years since the last medical school was created in New Zealand. In this time our provincial and rural health status has not improved as much as it should have and access continues to be a growing problem, yet existing medical training programmes have not changed to meet these needs.

It is time for a new radical approach in New Zealand to tackle these provincial and rural health problems.

 

What is being proposed?

The Waikato Medical School will offer a medical degree programme which reflects international best practice and is unique in New Zealand.  Specifically it will be:

1. Graduate entry only (requiring an undergraduate degree from any university in any subject, compared to the current requirement to take health sciences at Auckland or Otago Universities to have the option to enter medicine)
2. Four years in length rather than the six years currently required at Auckland and Otago universities
3. Community engaged, involving communities outside the tertiary hospital centres in the design of the programme, selection of students, and training of students
4. Proactive in adding to existing clinical placement opportunities for medical students across the Midland health region (Bay of Plenty, Lakes, Tairawhiti and Waikato District Health Boards)
5. An opportunity to build a new medical school in genuine partnership with Māori and with other high health needs communities.

Read the full list of Waikato Medical School FAQs .

In other initiative to improve healthcare access for everyone, Waikato DHB also recently launched  SmartHealth , a free online healthcare service for people in the Waikato which connects them with a range of health services using a smart phone, tablet device or home computer.

Please click on the date below to view the agenda.

2017 Agendas

Historical Health Waikato Advisory Committee agendas

If you require a historical agenda that's not yet been listed on the website, please email the request to  webmaster@waikatodhb.health.nz

Please click on the date below to view the agenda.

2017 Agendas

Historical Community & Public Health Advisory Committee agendas

Historical Disability Support Advisory Committee agendas

If you require a historical agenda that's not yet been listed on the website, please email the request to  webmaster@waikatodhb.health.nz

Please check the agenda for the timing and venue of meetings as they do vary.

Meeting schedule for 2017

BreastScreen Aotearoa is a free national breast screening programme that checks women between 45 and 69 years for early breast cancer. The programme aims to reduce the number of women who die from breast cancer.

You can have a free screening mammogram every two years through BreastScreen Aotearoa if you meet the following criteria:

• Are aged 45 – 69 years
• Have no symptoms of breast cancer
• Have not had a mammogram in the last 12 months
• Are not pregnant or breastfeeding
• Are eligible for public health services in New Zealand
  (Details of eligibility are available at www.moh.govt.nz/eligibility)

Enrolling and booking an appointment:

• Freephone 0800 270 200 to enrol and/or book an appointment
• You can enrol when you visit your GP. H/she may also send you a letter to advise that you may be eligible to join the BreastScreen Aotearoa programme.
• Enrol online by visiting the BreastScreen Aotearoa website
  If you have been previously screened by BreastScreen Aotearoa you will receive a letter inviting you for another mammogram when you are due.

Mammograms are breast x-rays which:

• can show changes in the breast before anything can be seen or felt. In most cases the changes will not be cancer.
• can detect breast cancer early, which means a very good chance of successful treatment
• are particularly effective in women 50 years and over who have mammograms every two years
• can detect about 75 percent of unsuspected cancers in women under 50 and 85 percent in women over 50
• cannot prevent you getting breast cancer and cannot always prevent death from breast cancer.

Some breast cancers develop during the time between screening mammograms, so it is important that you are breast aware. If you notice any breast symptoms (changes that are not normal for you), see your doctor as soon as possible.

Symptoms could include:

• a new lump or thickening
• a change in breast shape or size
• pain in the breast that is unusual
• puckering or dimpling of the skin
• any change in one nipple, such as:
• • a turned-in nipple
  • a discharge that occurs without squeezing
• a rash or reddening of the skin that appears only on the breast

Service hours

By appointment

Location

Mammograms are provided at the Breast Care Centre, Waikato Hospital, Anglesea Women’s Health, Hamilton, or on one of our two mobile breast screening units. A mobile visits every town within the Waikato and some of the remote areas of the Bay of Plenty and Lakes District Health Board regions.

Contact information

Breast Screen Midland
Ph: 0800 270 200

Breast Care Centre: Waikato Hospital
Ph: (07) 834 3665 or ext 97665

BreastScreen Midland GP LiaisonData Coordinator
Ph: 021 356 714

Support to Screening Services – Breast & Cervical
Hauraki PHO Ph: 07 868 9686
Pinnacle Midlands Health Network Ph:   07 0800 646 764 (Option 2) or 07 834 8289 (Option 2)

Referral/criteria information

Women aged between 45 and 69 years who are not already enrolled in the BreastScreen Aotearoa programme can register online by going to www.breastscreen.govt.nz or by completing an enrolment form and posting it to the address provided. For more information about the BreastScreen Aotearoa programme visit the website 

In the news

• Breast screening changes for Eastern Bay of Plenty

Highlights ongoing work, information and education events that will make things easier for primary care health professionals and their patients.

• Issue 11 - May 2017

• Issue 10 - February 2017

• Issue 9 - November 2016

• Issue 8 - October 2016

• Issue 7 - September 2016

• Issue 6 - June 2016

• Issue 5 - April 2016

• Issue 4 - February 2016

Contacts:

• Damian Tomic, Clinical Director Primary and Integrated Care, Waikato DHB -  damian.tomic@waikatodhb.health.nz
• Fiona Campbell, GP Liaison - fiona.campbell@waikatodhb.health.nz 
• Angela Fairweather, GP Liaison - angela.fairweather@waikato.health.nz
• Mark Taylor, GP Liaison - mark.taylor@waikatodhb.health.nz 
• Sheril-Ann Wilson -  sheril-ann.wilson@waikatodhb.health.nz