Websites

Here are some links to some helpful websites.

https://www.health.govt.nz/

The New Zealand Ministry of Health. The Government’s principal advisor on health and disability: improving, promoting and protecting the health of all New Zealanders

The Ministry of Health NZ  government official website. For information on common health conditions and NZ health services click on “Your Health” tab at top left corner of web page.

Call Healthline on 0800 611 116 for free, for advice from their trained registered nurses.

httpss://patient.info/

Patient UK is the web’s leading independent health platform, established for 20 years. With more than 18 million visits a month, it is a trusted source of information for both patients and health professionals across the globe.

The site contains over 4000 health information leaflets and thousands of discussion forums. It is accredited by The Information Standard, NHS England’s quality mark and was listed as ‘The top health website you can’t live without’ by The Times newspaper (Jan 2013).

https://www.immune.org.nz/

The Immunisation Advisory Centre (IMAC) is a nationwide organisation based at The University of Auckland.

Immune.org provide New Zealanders with independent, factual information about vaccine-preventable diseases and the benefits and risks of immunisation. They also provide training for health professionals, national immunisation coordination and policy advice and research.

For questions about immunisation and vaccination-preventable diseases you can call them free on: 0800 IMMUNE (0800 466 863), weekdays 9am-4.30 pm

httpss://www.dermnetnz.org/

DermNet New Zealand was founded by Dermatologist Dr Amanda Oakley in 1995. It has become a world renowned resource all about the skin. The website is owned by the DermNet New Zealand Trust. It has been HON (Health-on-The-Net) certified since 1996 and is in continuous development to provide information about the skin over any standard desktop or mobile web browser. (Be aware this site contains textbook-type medical photos that can occasionally be graphic in nature.)

httpss://www.healthnavigator.org.nz/

Health Navigator provides New Zealanders with reliable and accessible information about long-term health conditions. Run by the Health Navigator Charitable Trust, Health Navigator encourages and enables New Zealanders to pursue healthy lifestyles and better understand, actively prevent, and, if necessary, adjust to, long-term health conditions in themselves, and their surrounding families and communities.

httpss://www.kidshealth.org.nz/

The KidsHealth website has been created by a partnership between the Paediatric Society of New Zealand (PSNZ) and the Starship Foundation, supported and funded by the Ministry of Health.

PSNZ is a multidisciplinary society committed to improving the health of children and young people. With its membership of a broad range of child and youth health professionals, PSNZ is well placed to develop content for the KidsHealth website that is useful for parents and is up to date, accurate and valid.

The Starship Foundation is a charitable trust which raises funds for medical equipment, support services, research and paediatric training to boost children and young people’s health in New Zealand. The Foundation has a high charity profile within New Zealand.

The Ministry of Health leads New Zealand’s health and disability system, and has overall responsibility for the management and development of that system.

Together, our mission is to provide accurate and reliable information about children’s health for New Zealand parents and caregivers, as well as the wider family and whānau who are involved in caring for children.

httpss://www.plunket.org.nz/

Plunket is a national not-for-profit organisation, community-owned and governed. They provide a caring, professional well child and family and whānau service.

They are committed to providing universal access to services for all children and families regardless of ethnicity, location or ability to pay. This is at the heart of who they are and is essential to provide a positive environment for parents.

PlunketLine 0800 933 922

Mental health websites and contact phone numbers.

 Life line 0800 543 354

 NDI Helpline: Telephone support for adults experiencing depression or supporting someone with depression. Phone 0800 111 757.

The Journal
6 week interactive online modules for people experiencing depression.  The modules include mood enhancing activities and structured problem solving. For more information visit

httpss://depression.org.nz/

This website helps New Zealanders recognise and understand depression and anxiety. We want to reduce the impact that depression and anxiety have on the lives of New Zealanders by encouraging early recognition and help-seeking.

This website is full of ideas and stories to help people with depression and anxiety get to a better place.

httpss://thelowdown.co.nz/

The Lowdown is a website for mental health support for young people.

Email and text support for young people experiencing depression or supporting someone with depression.

FREETXT 5626 or email team@thelowdown.co.nz .

https://www.calm.auckland.ac.nz/

CALM Website, Computer Assisted Learning for the Mind. Practical techniques to manage stress, anxiety and depression.

httpss://www.menopause.org.au/

About the AMS

Members of the Australasian Menopause Society Limited (AMS) are doctors and other health care professionals who each have a special interest in women’s health in midlife and menopause, and the promotion of healthy ageing.

Whether information is needed about peri-menopause, MHT/HRT and alternatives, osteoporosis or how to locate a doctor interested in women’s health, the AMS seeks to bring accurate, evidence-based information to health care workers and the wider community.

The transition through menopause may raise many individual medical questions. While it’s not possible ethically for AMS to answer these questions, the Society provides Health Information which may be freely accessed to help women and their health professionals better understand the transition through this stage of life.