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Why we seek your support

Our hospitals are a vital community asset. You can help ensure that all Northlanders are provided with the highest standard of health care and expertise now and in the future.

As Northlanders we suffer from some of the country’s highest rates of common life-threatening diseases. These include, but are not limited to, coronary artery disease, diabetes, lung cancer, kidney diseases, chronic respiratory disease, stroke and asthma.

Northland District Health Board cares for Northlanders’ health within our community as well as in its hospitals in Whangarei, Dargaville, Kawakawa and Kaitaia.

With an ageing population and constant changes to technology, the health sector is always developing and seeking to purchase more state-of-the-art equipment to treat patients. Although the government funds our District Health Board, like many other New Zealand hospitals we are seeking support from our community to help raise funds for additional equipment that will benefit patient care and ultimately save more lives.
To achieve this Northland Community Foundation and Northland District Health Board have
established a relationship to:

• Encourage community giving to benefit all Northlanders’ health needs now and in the future.
• Provide for additional medical equipment, support and help to staff, patients and families – as an extra to government funding never as a replacement for government funding.

You Choose

There are many reasons to give a gift to benefit the health of Northlanders.

Your gift can benefit anyone: newborns, children, young mums, the chronically ill, elderly, or those who are in the final stages of their lives.

You can make a contribution to a particular service such as mental health, the diabetes or renal services or the children’s ward.

You may choose to have your gift assist with the purchase of a piece of medical equipment.

You can also choose to support your local hospital or a service provided in your local area.

Alternatively you can choose to give an unrestricted gift. Unrestricted gifts are added to our Northland Health Endowment Fund and invested with other gifts. The interest earned from this capital sum is used to give grants to organisations that are working to directly benefit the health of Northlanders.

If you need help deciding we can suggest options for any of the hospitals.

With your support we hope to fund state-of-the-art medical and related equipment and generate funds to support medical excellence for Northland.

For further information, or for a no-obligation, confidential discussion please contact:
Northland Community Foundation on Tel: 09 459 6327 or email us at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it .

Whangarei Hospital is the lead hospital and provides an extensive range of specialist services for the benefit of all Northlanders including surgical and medical services, accident and emergency, intensive care, coronary care, renal dialysis, maternity, special care baby unit, child health and a mental health inpatient unit. It is also the base for extensive community and public health services.

Kaitaia Hospital is a 31 bed general hospital which serves the Far North community. Kaitaia Hospital is undergoing major redevelopment providing the community with a new maternity unit, day surgery and a new wing incorporating GP clinics, outpatients, radiology and a new accident and medical centre.

Bay of Islands Hospital, located in Kawakawa, is the largest rural hospital (of those not providing secondary surgical services) in New Zealand serving 38,000 people. The hospital provides comprehensive medical and paediatric services as well as a substantial community health service.

Dargaville Hospital provides vital health services to the people of the Kaipara. It has a 12-bed general ward and a four-bed maternity ward, which are supported by laboratory, physiotherapy, and occupational therapy services.