Hutt Valley District Health Board

Name :

Hutt Valley District Health Board

Address  :

Pilmuir House
Hutt Hospital Campus

Town  :

Lower Hutt

State  :

Wellington

Country  :

NEW ZEALAND

Phone  :

04 566 6999

Web URL  :


Description

About Hutt Valley District Health Board Overview
Hutt Valley District Health Board DHB was formed in 2001 and is one of 20 district health boards in New Zealand We are a governmentfunded organisation and are responsible for planning funding and providing health care and disability support services for the 141400 people who live in the Hutt Valley

We provide secondary and tertiary medical and surgical hospital services alongside primary and community based health care Our main facility is Hutt Hospital in Lower Hutt which has 260 beds

We manage a current annual budget of approximately 422 million of which approximately half is spent on hospital and mental health services and the other half funds a range of primary a community health providers

Over 2200 people are employed by the district health board most of whom work at Hutt Hospital or for our community and regional health services

An 11 member Board has governance and strategic oversight of the Hutt Valley DHB

Our Vision
Whanau Ora ki te Awakairangi

Healthy people healthy families and healthy communities are so interlinked that it is impossible to say one comes first and then leads to anotherhence we tend to present them in a circle

Our Mission
Working together for health and wellbeing

Our mission shows the Hutt Valley DHBs commitment to a cooperative way of working which includes our staff working cooperatively working together with the people and organisations we fund organisations from other sectors and with our community
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