Aids Hotline

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Freephone: 0800 802 437

Arthritis New Zealand BOP

Historic Village
17th Avenue
PO Box 841
Tauranga 3141
Phone: 07 571 0088
Freephone: 0800 663 463
Email: bayofplentysc@arthritis.org.nz
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Blue Lagoon Charitable Trust

Hearing Assistance Help for hearing impaired, with education, funding for aids and communication equipment.
Cherrywood
PO Box 8354
Tauranga 3145
Phone: 07 576 1349
Fax: 07 576 1370
Email: john.helen@nettel.net.nz

Brainwaves Assoc. Tauranga Support Group Inc

Phone: 07 543 1327
Fax: 07 543 1327
Email: brainwaves@callsouth.net.nz

Breast Cancer Support Service

To provide support, advocacy and education to women with breast cancer and their families.
Phone: 07 571 3346

CAN Trust - Mental Health Support Group

Relaxed and informal coffee and chat for those who have an experience of mental illness including Bipolar, depression, and anxiety. Katikati Resource Centre. Support group meets 2nd & 4th Tues: 10am -12noon.
Katikati Resource Centre
Greeton
Tauranga
Phone: 07 579 9890
Email: bopconsumergroup@xtra.co.nz
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Community Living Trust Therapy Services

Services for adults with intellectual disabilities
PO Box 519
Tauranga 3141
Phone: 07 571 3141
Fax: 07 571 3146

Deaf Aotearoa NZ / BOP Branch

Information and services for the deaf including needs assessment, service co-ordination, training and advocacy
Historic Village
17th Avenue West
Tauranga
Phone: 07 571 5930
Fax: 07 571 5932
Email: marlene.helmes@deaf.org.nz
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Diabetes Tauranga Inc

A/H: 07 549 0709
Phone: 07 578 8129

Epilepsy Association of NZ

BOP/Coromandel Field Officer
Historic Village
Seventeenth Ave
PO Box 841
Tauranga
Freephone: 0800 202 122
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Headway Brain Injury Assoc BOP Inc

Info, advocacy & support services to people with brain injury, families and whanau.
31 Gloucester Rd
Hillier Centre
PO Box 10050
Mount Maunganui
Phone: 07 572 4547
Fax: 07 572 4549
Email: liaison.headwaybop@brain-injury.org.nz
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Health and Disability Advocacy Service

Phone: 07 577 1715

Health and Disability Commissioner

An independent agency set up to: promote and protect the rights of consumers to use Health and Disability services; help resolve problems between consumers and providers of Health and Disability services; improve quality of Health Care and Disability services
Phone: 09 373 1060
Freephone: 0800 112 2333
Fax: 09 373 1061
Email: hdc@hdc.org.nz

Health Consumer Service

PO Box 15019
Hamilton
Freephone: 0800 801 482

Health Consumer Service

Advocacy & support for consumers who have concerns about their health or disability
PO Box 4023
Mount Maunganui 3116
Phone: 07 575 6906
Freephone: 0800 801 482
Fax: 07 575 8100
Email: burnett@wave.co.nz

Healthline

Free 24 hour telephone health advice from landline or mobile.
Freephone: 0800 611 116

Hearing Dogs for Deaf People NZ

Training and Support for Hearing Dogs
PO Box 8117
New Plymouth 4342
Phone: 06 769 5000
Fax: 06 769 5400
Email: info@hearingdogs.org.nz

Impotence Advisory Service

Phone: Free phone 0508 362 867
Email: info@nzmensclinic.co.nz

Kidney Health New Zealand

Freephone: 0800 543 639
Email: info@kidneys.co.nz

Leukaemia & Blood Foundation

6 Claude Road
Epsom
PO Box 99 182 Newmarket 1149
Auckland
Phone: 09 638 3556
Freephone: 0800 15 10 15
Email: lbf@leukaemia.org.nz
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LIFE Unlimited Disability Resource Centre Inc

Disability Information service. Free Hearing Therapy service.
Chadwick House
250 Chadwick Rd
Greerton
Tauranga 3112
Phone: 07 571 6351
Email: admintga@life.nzl.org
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Motor Neuron Disease Assoc NZ/ BOP Branch

PO Box 15063
Tauranga South
Phone: 07 578 6161
Email: michelle@wrailton.co.nz

Multiple Sclerosis Society (BOP) Inc

55a Edgecumbe Road
PO Box 15309
Tauranga 3144
Phone: 07 571 6898
Email: bopmsociety@xtra.co.nz
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Nationwide Health & Disability Advocacy Service

Provides advocacy,support to resolve complaints, education and information on rights of consumers
Seventeenth Ave
Historic Village
Tauranga 3140
Phone: 07 577 1715
Freephone: 0800 555 050
Fax: 07 577 1712
Email: engawhare@hdc.org.nz
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Neurological Foundation / BOP

PO Box 1005
Tauranga
Phone: 07 378 9596

New Zealand Continence Assn

Phone: 09 236 0610
Freephone: 0800 650 659
Email: zoe@continence.org.nz

NZ Addison's Network (NZAN)

Support group for those who have failure of adrenal gland
Phone: 07 572 1430

NZ Federation of Disabiltiy Information Centres

Do you want to know how to access disability support and services?
Phone: 04 298 2914
Freephone: 0800 693 342

Osteoporosis Group

Weekly exercise programme held at Synergistics Wellness Centre, Thursday Mornings 10.30am
14b Hocking Street
(off Hewletts Road)
Mount Maunganui 3145
Phone: 07 572 3031
Email: emily@synergistics.co.nz
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Osteoporosis NZ Inc

PO Box 688
Wellington
Phone: 04 499 4862

Post Polio Support Society

Phone: 07 853 8285
Email: edith@catchword.co.nz

Recycled Teenagers

Affiliated Ph3 Cardiac Club. Exerise for older adults post heart, hip replacement sports science. Water exercise based at Fernland spa Wednesdays. Hall based Mon & Wed Elizabeth St West. Tues - St Mary's Church cnr Girven Rd and Marlin St, Bayfair
Phone: 07 571 1411
Email: lochwood@xtra.co.nz

Royal NZ Foundation Blind Telefriend

Sight loss support/peer support
Freephone: 0800 100 051

Stroke Support

Phone: 07 571 3050

Tauranga Ongoing Pain Support Grp Inc

Centre for all age groups dealing with chronic pain.
Phone: 07 576 7067
Email: gglingard@xtra.co.nz

Waikato/Bay of Plenty Cancer Society

Support group Womens Group, 2nd Friday of every month at 12.30
98 Fourteenth Ave
P.O Box 1081
Tauranga
Phone: 07 571 2035
Fax: 07 571 2036
Email: tauranga@cancersociety.org.nz
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Western BOP Mental Health Trust

Phone: 07 577 1457

Zipper Cardiac Support Club

Provides information, support and advice to people who are about to have or who have had open-heart surgery
26 Grosmont Tce
Brookfield
Tauranga 3110
Phone: 07 576 5579
Fax: 07 576 5579
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