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Health Passport
Implementing the Health Passport
Initiative
A Health Passport is a booklet that consumers can carry
with them when attending hospitals or other providers of health and
disability services. A Passport contains information that consumers
want people to know about how to communicate with and to support
them.
The Health and Disability Commissioner is working with District
Health Boards throughout New Zealand to introduce the Health
Passport initiative into our hospitals.
Hutt Hospital and Wellington
Hospital started using the Health Passport in a pilot
study between 1 April and 30 September in 2011. Information
gathered during this process has helped us find out what works best
when hospital staff and patients begin to use it.
In November, staff at North Shore and
Waitakere Hospitals began to use
the Health Passport. If you live in the Waitemata DHB region, and
you have a Health Passport, please take it to hospital with you.
Staff at Waikato Hospital are
also familiar with the Health Passport and are supporting patients
to use it.
Several other DHBs are now working with DHC to implement the
Health Passport in their regions. Watch this space for information
about when staff at your hospital will know about your Passport and
be ready for it.
Please wait until your hospital is ready before taking
your Passport to hospital with you.
To download your purple Health Passport click here.
Completing your Health Passport
You can get your caregiver or a member of your family to help
you. The Guide provides helpful examples and
explanations. Fill in as much or as little as you like - not
all the information may apply to you.
Please remember to take your Health Passport home with
you afterwards!
For questions and enquiries regarding the implementation of
the Health Passport, please contact Elizabeth Finn on 0800 11 22 33
ext 5022 or email ElizabethF@hdc.org.nz