Waikato

Waikato Hospital’s Critical Care is a 34-bed tertiary provider of intensive care medicine in the Midland region. Critical Care is a modern facility and encompasses the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and the High Dependency Unit (HDU), admitting approximately 3387 patients each year.

The Intensive Care Unit has 22 beds run by intensive care specialists and nurses. The 12-bed high dependency unit is an ‘open’ unit and works closely with ICU. Patients are cared by high dependency unit nurses, but medically managed by primary teams.

Waikato Hospital is a tertiary, teaching hospital with a major trauma centre and the second-largest cardiac surgical centre in New Zealand. Critical Care provides sophisticated care and life support to critically unwell or injured patients for all specialities including

• Trauma • General surgery • Neurosurgery • General medicine • Cardiac surgery • Regional Burns Centre • Paediatrics – predominantly HDU-type care

Critical Care provides services to the local Waikato region and wider Te Manawa Taki region, including the Bay of Plenty, Tarawhiti and Taranaki. The Intensive Care unit provides a medical transport service, using helicopter, fixed wing and land transport.

The Waikato Region

The Waikato region is located in the central North Island of New Zealand. It is bordered by Auckland to the north, Bay of Plenty to the east, Taranaki to the west, and Manawatu-Wanganui to the south. Overall, the Waikato region is a great place to live for its natural beauty, strong community, affordable housing, excellent education opportunities, and job prospects.

The Waikato district covers an area of over 21,000 square kilometres and extends from the northern Coromandel region to an area close to Mt Ruapehu in the south and from Raglan on the west coast to Waihi on the east coast.

Waikato includes New Zealand’s longest river – the Waikato, plus internationally significant wetlands, and over 1000 kilometres of beautiful coastline.

In the centre of Waikato is New Zealand's fourth largest city – Hamilton, which prides itself as a centre of education with a wide range of public and private schools, the University of Waikato, Wintec, Te Wananga o Aotearoa (a kaupapa Māori tertiary institute) and Waikato Hospital which is a large tertiary and teaching hospital.

To find out more about the Waikato region, visit www.waikatonz.com

Health New Zealand | Waikato

Health New Zealand - Waikato is one of the largest employers in the region, employing approximately 9000 people. We serve a population of more than 425,000 people who live in the Waikato district.

In the Waikato there are five hospital sites including a large tertiary teaching hospital (Waikato Hospital in Hamilton), a secondary hospital in Thames, and three rural hospitals in Tokoroa, Te Kuiti and Taumarunui. There is also a mental health facility, two continuing care facilities as well as community based and public health services.

Waikato Hospital is a large tertiary, teaching and research hospital in the region with around 722 beds delivering a full range of emergency, elective and outpatient services. Its clinical specialties include internal medicine, oncology and haematology, surgical services, paediatrics, gynaecology and obstetrics, emergency and critical care, radiology and anaesthetics. Waikato Hospital has a state-of-the-art critical care facility near the Emergency Department, operating theatres, interventional suites and main hospital circulation routes.

Waikato Hospital is a teaching hospital with links to the University of Auckland, University of Waikato and Wintec (Waikato Institute of Technology). The campus includes an education centre with excellent library, and a clinical skills centre with a clinical simulation suite.

59% of their population is defined as living in urban areas, and 41% in rural areas. 23% of their population is Māori (compared to the national average of 16%)

Iwi (Māori tribal groups) in the Waikato district include Hauraki, Maniapoto, Raukawa, Waikato, Ngāti Tūwharetoa and Whanganui. A significant number of Māori living here affiliate to iwi outside the district.

Local Information

Getting around

  • Busit for Hamilton local bus routes, make sure you purchase a Bee card to use these buses.

  • Intercity Bus for national buses from getting to and from the region.

  • Te Huia train service runs return services from Hamilton to Auckland several times during the week and on Saturdays.

  • Ride sharing services Wakarider.co.nz, Uber, Ola are also available as well as various rental vehicle options.

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