Modernising Primary Health: Models of Care That Make a Difference
Join changemakers from across Aotearoa who are shaping the future of primary and community health for two days of innovation and collaboration. This conference brings together those delivering, supporting, and experiencing care, together we’ll explore new models of care that are making a real difference for kaimahi and whānau across the motu.
Amarjit Maxwell
THINK Hauora
Collaboration Te Pou Hono: Harnessing Collective Impact for Whānau-Centred Health Transformation
Anna Liki-Faalenuu
Pasefika Family Health Group
How Pasefika Family Health Group Model Diabetes Nurse-led Clinic enhance clinical & treatment inertia
Belinda Allen and Rhonda Dames
Healthpoint
Empowering Whānau Through Accessible Health Information: A Proactive Care Approach
Candice Apelu and Chi Ling Chan
Mariner Pacific Health Service Hutt Valley & CEO Equitech Collective/Speedback
Transforming Primary Health Care for Pacific Communities through Precision Public Health : A Global Partnership
Dr Kim Hurst
Green Cross Health / The Doctors Whakatipu
Primary Care - A Team Sport
Dr Nick Loveridge-Easther and Thach Tran
Practice.AI & Coastal Medical Group, GDS CEO
From Potential to Practice: Appropriate Implementation of AI in General Practice
Irihāpeti Mahuika
Health Hawkes Bay
A journey of leadership
Jane Cullen
ALF Consulting
Creating the conditions to continuously innovate and succeed in primary care
Jess Hows
Kensington Health
From Silos to Synergy: Building Everyday Collaboration Into Clinical Practice
Jess Morgan-French
Collaborative Aotearoa
Enabling equity for rural Māori communities
Jess Morgan-French and Michelle Pokorney
Collaborative Aotearoa & Tāmaki Health
DrumBeat.ai HRC project with Tāmaki Health
Mike Gorinski
The Palms Medical Centre
Redesigning Acute Care: A Scalable Model for Timely Access and Workforce Sustainability
Ny Brunenberg
Collaborative Aotearoa
Collaboration in the Digital Era: Transforming Health and Learning Together
Rachael Prestidge and Rachel Pomeroy
Pegasus Health & Purapura Whetu trust
Safely and efficiently setting up a new immunisation service within a Hauora Māori setting: barriers and progress
Ray Delany
CIO Studio
LEANing into Digital
Sandhaya (Sandy) Bhawan
Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners
RNZCGP Quality Programmes and Pou Ora: Let's work smarter not harder
Sarah Stevenson
Western Bay of Plenty PHO
BeingWell: A Stepped Care Approach to Mental Health and Addictions
Sénae Mitchell and Laura Penny
Western Bay of Plenty PHO
Let's Talk Screening: Co-designing Confident Kōrero for Equity
Stuart Cook
Rakaia Medical Centre
Growing pains of Extended Care Paramedics in Private Practice
Tayla Cadigan and Ginny Brailsford
West Coast Health
The Equity of Access to Medicines Project
Friday 27 March
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Ngā Hononga Ora Conference 2025
A powerful gathering of hearts, minds, and purpose. Held at Tākina Event Centre in Wellington, bringing together thought leaders and changemakers from across the motu to strengthen our collective impact in primary and community healthcare.
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