Nga Kete Matauranga Pounamu Charitable Trust is a not-for-profit health and social service provider with 20 years of delivery in Southland employing 64 staff.
Nga Kete delivers a range of services including addiction counselling, problem gambling counselling, disability support and advocacy, restorative justice, whanau ora, community nursing services and He Puna Waiora Wellness Centre (A Low Cost Access doctor service) among others.
Click here to open our service booklet.
Nga Kete delivers a range of services including addiction counselling, problem gambling counselling, disability support and advocacy, restorative justice, whanau ora, community nursing services and He Puna Waiora Wellness Centre (A Low Cost Access doctor service) among others.
Click here to open our service booklet.
We are a designated COVID-19 testing site. Phone (03) 214 5261 - appointment required. FREE SERVICE - OPEN TO ALL.
He Puna Waiora Wellness Centre (GP Practice) is open daily Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm.
Under MOH guidelines (COVID-19) for your care and safety, we are providing GP phone consultations. Face-to-face appointments are available.
For information on our wider services under COVID-19 LEVEL 3, please ring (03) 214 5260.
TESTING
Concerned? Have a respiratory infection and at least one of the following: cough, sore throat, shortness of breath, loss of smell with or without fever?
We have approval to test all people irrespective if they are a patient of our service or not, so that's you and your whanau.
This is a FREE service and we are testing daily. Please phone (03) 214 5261.
The GP will ring you and assess if a test is the way to go and an appointment will be made for you.
Your appointment: Drive up the back ramp at your appointed time. We are situated at 92 Spey Street, Invercargill, however you will come via the Yarrow Street side of our building (directly across from the big blue Salvation Army Family Store). Remain in your car and the GP and/or nurse will come out in full PPE gear to take your test. Test results generally take 24 – 48 hours.
He Puna Waiora Wellness Centre (GP Practice) is open daily Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm.
Under MOH guidelines (COVID-19) for your care and safety, we are providing GP phone consultations. Face-to-face appointments are available.
For information on our wider services under COVID-19 LEVEL 3, please ring (03) 214 5260.
TESTING
Concerned? Have a respiratory infection and at least one of the following: cough, sore throat, shortness of breath, loss of smell with or without fever?
We have approval to test all people irrespective if they are a patient of our service or not, so that's you and your whanau.
This is a FREE service and we are testing daily. Please phone (03) 214 5261.
The GP will ring you and assess if a test is the way to go and an appointment will be made for you.
Your appointment: Drive up the back ramp at your appointed time. We are situated at 92 Spey Street, Invercargill, however you will come via the Yarrow Street side of our building (directly across from the big blue Salvation Army Family Store). Remain in your car and the GP and/or nurse will come out in full PPE gear to take your test. Test results generally take 24 – 48 hours.
Working Through COVID-19: In Pictures
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