Patient and providers services

The patient and providers service teams support primary healthcare teams to provide the highest quality care to the people of Waitaha Canterbury.  

Through these services, Pegasus plays an important role in making sure health needs are met across the communities, cultural groups, various age groups, and in the geographical areas that it serves. We strive for all people, including Māori, to receive access to equitable health. 

Our specialised teams work closely with our general practices and other primary care providers in the following areas:   

This is a large group of varied specialist teams that provide services that complement or extend the core provided by general practice. 

This includes: 

This team supports young people living in the Oranga Tamariki residence Te Puna Wai o Tuhinapo  (youth and correctional justice). The team provides primary health care on-site. The service is nurse-led with the support of general practitioners (GPs).  

Our kaitautoko (support workers) work with Māori, Pacific peoples', Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD), youth, Rainbow, low income, and those with disabilities. Tautoko Hauora is a service that aims to provide support to individuals who are either not enrolled in a general practice or who are enrolled but not accessing their general practice teams as frequently as required. The team helps identify and manage the barriers that a person or whānau may have in accessing health care.

Find out more about Tautoko Hauora

This service aims to support the social, behavioural, developmental needs, and wellbeing of tamariki aged zero -14 years. 

Find out more about Child and Whānau Support - Tautoko Hauora

Here Toitū work to support individuals living with a health condition or disability to improve their wellbeing, determine their own goals and aspirations, and where appropriate, engage in sustainable earning, learning or volunteering that is meaningful to them. 

Find out more about Here Toitū

The smoking cessation team supports people across Waitaha to become Smokefree by working with general practice to ensure patients are offered and can access cessation support.  The team includes support advisors who undertake recalls to overdue patients, and stop smoking practitioners (quit coaches) who, along with other quit coaches from Te Hā – Waitaha, provide face to face individual or clinic-based support programmes for clients to become smokefree.

The B4 School Check Coordination team provides leadership and coordination for all clinical and operational matters of the B4 School Check (B4SC) programme in Waitaha.  We focus on the provision of services to high deprivation populations and to high need, Māori, Pacific peoples', and new migrant children with the expectation that it will contribute to the reduction of health inequalities. The team also manage the Pegasus service delivery which includes a dedicated mobile outreach service.  

The Immunisation Coordination team supports Pegasus and Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora Waitaha to deliver the immunisation coordination programme in a way that ensures maximum vaccination coverage is achieved in a compliant manner. The team completes cold chain accreditations, independent vaccinator training, and support catch up immunisation schedules.