Virtual DHB – the FREE app that puts your health in your hands
- health information and advice from top clinicians
- appointments with hospital specialists* without leaving your home or office
- links to useful resources and websites
What is a virtual consultation?
This amazing app puts you in touch with health professionals when appropriate via your mobile phone or computer. The Virtual DHB app supports video, voice and text chat.
- Time and hassle saved
- No more long journeys to hospitals for a short appointment
- You own your clinical record
- You can be in charge of your own health
Secure. Private. Convenient.
How do i sign up?
Residents can sign up to the service from 1 June by taking photo ID along to the enquiry desk at Waikato Hospital or to the DHB’s other hospitals at Thames, Te Kuiti, Tokoroa or Taumauranui. To be eligible, people need to be over the age of 18 and be covered by the Waikato District Health Board services.
* Clinicians need to be registered on Virtual DHB before they can be accessed for advice or virtual consultations. Waikato DHB is working with all its hospital services to ensure an increasing range of doctors and other healthcare practitioners are on Virtual DHB by the end of 2016. We are also working closely with GPs about opportunities this service can offer their patients too.