Lakes District Health Board

Name :

Lakes District Health Board

Address  :

Rotorua Hospital
Private Bag 3023
Rotorua Mail Centre

Town  :

Rotorua

State  :

Bay of Plenty

Country  :

NEW ZEALAND

Post Code:

3046

Phone  :

07 348 1199

Web URL  :


Description

The Lakes DHB hospitals at Rotorua and Taupo are an example of one of the groups the DHB funds The others include private providers Maori providers mental health service providers and nongovernment organisations The Lakes DHB is responsible for ongoing health and disability needs assessment of its population and for planning health service delivery

Approximately one third of the Lakes population lives in the Taupo region and two thirds live in the Rotorua region A total of 32 per cent of the Lakes population is Maori and the Lakes region has a small approximately 3600 as at 2004 but growing Pacific population
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