HealthInfo Canterbury
Information for health professionals
Health professionals in Canterbury can order HealthInfo business cards to hand out to patients. Go to the Community & Public Health website to order HealthInfo cards, flyers and posters. If you want to order more than 100 HealthInfo cards, download this order form and follow the instructions on the form to place your order.
You can also print the following two posters yourself and display them in your waiting room or staff room:
- The A4 poster for the public tells people what HealthInfo is and reminds them that they can go to it using their mobile phone. It provides a QR code to make it easier to access the website.
- The A4 poster for health professionals reminds health professionals to give out the HealthInfo card as well as telling them how to order cards, posters and flyers. It also has the QR code for HealthInfo.
HealthInfo has been developed for people to find useful locally approved information about wellbeing, health conditions, diagnosis, treatment and referral options. This site is designed to empower people to find out more about their diagnosed health conditions and to understand how the health system works.
The site has a mix of locally developed patient information, descriptions of local health services and supports, and links to local, New Zealand and international health and wellbeing information. It's intended to supplement the information that people access from their general practice team or other healthcare provider.
The HealthInfo content development process
HealthInfo is developed by a team of clinical advisers who are subject-matter experts, with wide consultation from local workgroups of doctors, nurses and allied health clinicians. The development team aims to get consensus on the preferred patient information included on the site from local health professionals, particularly GPs and those in Te Whatu Ora – Health New Zealand Waitaha Canterbury.
Written by HealthInfo clinical advisers. Last reviewed September 2020.
Review key: HIIHP-148325
