Better, sooner, more convenient health care in Midlands

4 The Integrated Family Health CentreA local focus on taking control of the daySouth Taranaki (Hawera)The proposals set out in the Midlands EOI will support a new and exciting model of clinical care andits delivery for South Taranaki. The Integrated Family Health Centre will be a primary, secondary andcommunity integration initiative between TDHB and primary care that will wrap the existing, oftenfragmented services around the community population.The largest GP practice in South Taranaki is the South Taranaki Medical Trust (Trading as SouthCare)that formed in 2003. It is operated out of a purpose built facility opened in October 2005. This facilitywas built on land purchased from the TDHB and is located next door to the Hawera Hospital. Thereare two other GP practices in Hawera and three practices in neighbouring rural towns, includingPatea that will also benefit from the proposed South Taranaki Integrated Family Health Centre.The wrap around services that will initially be integrated into the Integrated Family Health Centrewill be those currently provided by the TDHB that include the allied health services of diabetes,occupational & physiotherapy, podiatry and social work, ACC services including community nursing,physiotherapy, functional reactivation, Otago Falls And Training For Independence Programmes.South Taranaki Health Burden nowHigh Health BurdenMedium Health BurdenLow Health BurdenSouth Taranaki Health Burden 20 years57