Breaking barriers by bus

At dinner together one night in 2018, Dr Juliet Tay and Rebecca Fenn, Nurse Practitioner pondered the big question "How can we do it better"?. 

Rebecca, then working in Middlemore Hospital Emergency department, and Juliet working at Greenstone clinic, were musing over how they could improve health outcomes for the South Auckland community. They concluded that the best way to do it was by bus to bring healthcare to the community.

Skip to February 2022 to the Launch of Te Iti Pounamu Hauora Medical Bus.

This presentation will share with you our bus story, the people we have met and a few of the highs and lows we have experienced whilst striving to improve health outcomes of disengaged, disenfranchised people and families living in South Auckland.