Better Health Practices
Better Health is an independent company that operates a group of general practices in the South Island of New Zealand. We are not a corporation. Instead, we work with practices to provide administration and management support, a cooperative clinical network and a sustainable ownership structure.
All Better Health practices are at least 50% owned by working doctors and the majority of Better Health shareholders are active general practitioners.
The Better Health Group is growing and currently comprises four urban and rural practices from Christchurch to Timaru, totalling around 28,000 enrolled patients.
Moorhouse Medical Centre
Moorhouse Medical Centre in Christchurch city provides patients with access to affordable health care and a wide range of healthcare services: with doctors, nurses, physiotherapy, pharmacy, x-ray, fracture clinic, rehabilitation, travel medicine, counsellors and occupational vaccination all at one location. Moorhouse Medical Centre provides high quality general practice and after hours accident and medical care from purpose built facilities near the city centre off Moorhouse Ave.
We are open 8am to 8pm, 7 days a week (except public holidays when we are open 10am to 6pm. Closed Christmas Day.)
Nurse appointments are available for nurse clinics and services including Diabetes, Stop Smoking, Men’s and Women’s Wellness Checks and Immunisations.
Sexual Health & Family Planning services are available free to eligible patients. Maternity care is free for enrolled patients in the first trimester. Child Health is also free for children under 6 years who are enrolled at Moorhouse.
The Accident & Medical Clinic is open 8am to 8pm 7 days a week and does not require an appointment. ACC wound care is FREE.
See our website for further information about all the services we provide and the health packages we have developed for our business clients, sport club members and students.
Moorhouse Medical Centre has a dedicated travel health clinic. See http://www.travellershealth.co.nz
Barrington Medical Centre
Barrington Medical Centre is one of Christchurch’s largest general practices, with over 12,000 patients.
General practice, which in addition to the mainstream range of general practice, offers specialised advice in the areas of:
Travel health - Diabetes, nutrition and healthy lifestyles - Maternity services - Child health clinics - Family planning - Vasectomy - Insurance medicals - Musculoskeletal medicine - Sports injury - Diving medicine - Natural and herbal medicine
Barrington Medical Centre is situated in Barrington Community Health Centre, a large purpose-built facility which provides a wide range of health services on one site, including:
- Pharmacy
- Physiotherapy
- Eye Care
- Blood Testing/Laboratory
- Acupuncture
- Relationship Services Counselling
- Dental Clinic
Diamond Harbour
Situated on the sunny, north-facing coastline of Lyttelton Harbour on Banks Peninsula, Diamond Harbour is a small, friendly seaside community, similar in size to a village in the UK or Europe. With a population of 1400, the Diamond Harbour medical centre is not only a vital service to the local people, but a keystone business in the village.
Diamond Harbour can be reached by car (30 minutes from central Christchurch) or by an 8-minute ferry ride to Lyttelton, which has good bus transport links to Christchurch.
Doctors working at Diamond Harbour medical centre can enjoy the experience of working in a small rural community, with the convenience of Christchurch city being only 30 minutes away.
Diamond Harbour and the surrounding region of Banks Peninsula offer a fantastic variety of outdoor experiences, including sea kayaking, sailing, fishing, hiking and golf – the area has one of the most scenic golf courses in Canterbury.
Interested in a job working as a General Practitioner at Diamond Harbour in New Zealand? See http://www.diamondmed.co.nz
Timaru
Timaru is a busy port town located 100 miles south of Christchurch in New Zealand. It enjoys a natural microclimate with warm sunny weather. Timaru has a population of 28,000 and is a large provincial town which services the surrounding rural area of South Canterbury.
Timaru is located on the eastern coastline of New Zealand’s South Island and is a gateway to the snow-topped Southern Alps mountain range, majestic landscapes of the Mackenzie Basin, smaller provincial towns of Oamaru, Temuka and Geraldine, internationally renowned ski resort town of Queenstown, and crystal waters of Lake Wanaka and Lake Hayes
Interested in a job working as a General Practitioner at Better Health Timaru in New Zealand? Contact us by emailing info@betterhealth.health.nz