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Election day is now just over 80 days away, and New Zealanders are deciding who they trust with the future of our public health system.

We need your support in these critical days.

Our campaign is about to hit the streets. We have a hard-hitting poster campaign rolling out, events in Porirua and Auckland, and a roadshow, from one end of Aotearoa to the other, planned for the build up to election day.

If you are in a position to give financially, now is the most important moment.

Your donation will contribute to the costs of printing and installing posters in our major centres, and getting the roadshow out beyond the big cities.

We understand not everyone is able to contribute financially and there are many other important ways to get behind the campaign.

We’d love to see you at our upcoming events (details below), and we’ll be in touch soon with roadshow dates and posters you can print to put up in your community.

Finally, we have sent out a survey to political parties to establish who will commit to the change our public healthcare system desperately needs and will report back soon.

The next Government must:

Coming up…

Taking healthcare workers’ & patients’ voices to the streets

More than 1,500 health workers and many patients have shared anonymous reflections about what it is really like in our public health system.

In their own words, healthcare workers have told us about exhaustion, understaffing and the distress that comes from not having enough time to give people the care they know they deserve. Patients have told us about the struggle to get access to healthcare when they need it and the harm this causes.

Those voices and stories need to be heard.

We’re developing a nationwide poster campaign that will take healthcare workers’ and patients own words into communities across Aotearoa in the lead-up to the election.

We want New Zealanders to understand what is happening inside their public health system, why proper funding matters and that this is the moment to vote for parties that will strengthen our public health system.

World Patient Safety Day – 17 Sept

Next month, Aotearoa will take part in its first nationally coordinated World Patient Safety Day campaign.

Kaitiaki Hauora, Patient Voice Aotearoa and the Health Consumer Advocacy Alliance are bringing patients, clinicians and political representatives together for an evening forum in Auckland.

At the heart of the forum is one question for our political representatives:

What will you do to make healthcare safer?

Alongside the forum, landmarks around the country will light orange for patient safety, while patients and whānau will share their experiences of our health system.

The forum is free to attend and will also be livestreamed so people around Aotearoa can be part of it.

Come along. Watch online. Share it with your networks. Help us make patient safety impossible to ignore.

Then we’re hitting the road…

In October, we’re packing up the van.

Dr David Galler and Dr Malcolm Mulholland will travel from Bluff to Cape Reinga, stopping in communities along the way to talk about healthcare.

We want to take this conversation beyond Wellington and the big centres, hear what is happening in communities around the country and keep public healthcare front and centre as the election approaches.

Help us do more

You’ve seen some of what we have planned over the coming months. If you believe in what we’re doing, please help us make it happen.

Every donation helps us reach more people, support more campaign activity and keep fighting for a properly funded, equitable and publicly delivered health system.

Whether it’s $10, $50 or something more, your support helps us keep doing the work.

Please donate to Kaitiaki Hauora today.