Services for People
How can we help you?
Why Enrol?
Enrolment with Comprehensive Care can give you health care benefits. Go to our Why enrol? page for more information.
Comprehensive Care provides a range of health services. Some are available by self-referral; others require a referral from your doctor or practice nurse.
Comprehensive Care also provides services and support to General Practices.
Comprehensive Care provides services to member General Practices as documented in the PHO Services Agreement, version 6 (142-page PDF).
Please follow the links below for more information. If you have any questions or concerns, you can contact us by telephone or fax (see ‘Quick contact’), or you can use the “Send us a message” form on the Contact page.
Services
Taku Ako: Online learning for primary care workers
Comprehensive Care is committed to creating quality educational experiences that result in the improvement of health outcomes for all New Zealanders. This is achieved by ensuring that health professio
Immunisations
Immunisation is the most effective way to actively protect yourself and the people you care for from preventable diseases, such as whooping cough, tetanus, hepatitis B and measles.
Support Services for General Practice Teams
Comprehensive Care supports General Practices with a range of services. We provide both clinical and business support, to ensure that our practices can deliver progressive and accessible whānau-centr
Respiratory Care
Comprehensive Care’s respiratory team educates, champions best practice and provides funding to support individuals access the respiratory care they need. Respiratory disease now affects one in
Dietitian
Comprehensive Care offers free one-on-one consultations with a registered dietitian for people with Type 2 Diabetes This service is available for people who request individual appointments with o
Palliative Care
Comprehensive Care supports patients and their whānau by funding palliative care support. Palliative care is care for people of all ages with a life-limiting condition. No matter who we are, no
Smokefree Service
Asian Smokefree Services Stopping smoking is the best thing you can do for your health but you don’t have to do it alone. We provide a free quit smoking language and culturally specific serv
Education in Schools and Community Health Promotions
To address health inequality by removing barriers to access, demographically appropriate services are available to those enrolled with Comprehensive Care PHO and who are Māori, Pacific, migrant, re
Diabetes
Comprehensive Care's diabetes services operate throughout the Waitematā region to improve the health and wellbeing of Diabetes patients Comprehensive Care offers free Diabetes Self-Management Ed
Childhood Immunisations
Vaccinations on the National Immunisation Schedule are free for anyone until their 18th birthday. Very young children are particularly at risk of becoming sick, because their immune system lacks expe
MMR
The measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine protects against three viral infections – measles, mumps and rubella – in one vaccine. Prior to immunisation, these were highly feared viruses, with c
Flu
Influenza (flu) is a common viral illness affecting people throughout the winter months (May to October). It spreads easily to others through talking, coughing and sneezing. People are at risk of rep
COVID-19
COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) is a respiratory viral infection caused by SARS-CoV-2 virus, which spread rapidly resulting in a pandemic. Early symptoms of COVID-19 include a dry cough, sore thr
Other
HPV Human papillomaviruses (HPV) are a group of common viruses spread through skin to skin contact. Some are sexually transmitted and can cause causing genital warts, and a range of types of cancer.
Mental Health Services
Comprehensive Care PHO Psychological Services Comprehensive Care offers world class Mental Health support services to help the people in our community who are experiencing depression or anx
Podiatry
Comprehensive Care's podiatry programme supports people with diabetes who are at risk for foot complications. This service supports people with Type 1 or Type 2 Diabetes who have been assessed by
Retinal Screening
Comprehensive Care's retinal screening team is here to survey any changes in your eyes, preventing loss of vision. Both type 1 and type 2 diabetes can cause diabetic retinopathy (kinonga karu n