"Making life better for all people affected by Dementia"
116 Thirteenth Ave
PO Box 15 553
Tauranga 3144
Phone: 07 577 6344
Freephone: 0800 004 001
Fax: 07 577 6346
Email:
info@alzheimers.net.nz
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"Making life better for all people affected by Dementia"
116 Thirteenth Ave
PO Box 15 553
Tauranga 3144
Phone: 07 577 6344
Freephone: 0800 004 001
Fax: 07 577 6346
Email:
info@alzheimers.net.nz
Arthritis New Zealand
Clinics: Te Puke Western BOP Service Centre 2nd Thurs of month, Papamoa Library 1st Thurs, Hillier Centre Mt Maunganui 3rd Thurs & Metro Pharmacy, Bethlehem Shopping Centre 4th Tues.
Phone: 07 571 0088
Asthma Centre Clinic
2nd Tues afternoon monthly
Community Health Centre
Phone: 07 577 6738
Brainwaves Assoc. Tauranga Support Group Inc
Phone: 07 543 1327
Fax: 07 543 1327
Email:
brainwaves@callsouth.net.nz
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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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 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
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
Education, health promotion and cardiac care
47 Fraser St
PO Box 2457
Tauranga
Phone: 07 571 3013
Fax: 07 571 3015
Email:
julies@nhf.org.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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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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Neurological Foundation / BOP
PO Box 1005
Tauranga
Phone: 07 378 9596
Telecommunication services for people who are Deaf, Hearing Impaired, Deaf/Blind and Speech-impaired. 24/7 service 365 days
Private Bag 4
Pukekohe 2340
Phone: TTY 0800 4 713 713
Freephone: Voice 0800 4 715 715
Fax: 0800 4 329 697
Email:
helpdesk@NZRelay.co.nz
NZ Addison's Network (NZAN)
Support group for those who have failure of adrenal gland
Phone: 07 572 1430
NZ Federation of Disaility Information Centres
Do you want to know how to access disability support and services?
Phone: 04 298 2914
Freephone: 0800 693 342
Parkinsonism Society Tauranga Inc
PO Box 714
Phone: 07 572 2952
Fax: 07 572 2950
Email:
tauranga@parkinsons.org.nz

Royal NZ Foundation Blind Telefriend
Sight loss support/peer support
Freephone: 0800 100 051
Royal NZ Foundation of the Blind
Tauranga Locality Office
73 Sixteenth Ave
Tauranga
Phone: 07 578 2376
Freephone: 0800 24 33 33
Fax: 07 578 8359
Email:
wisaacs@rnzfb.org.nz
Free phone in service, friendly phone calls each day.
Phone: 0800 St John 0800 785 646
Stroke Foundation/Midland Field Officers
BOP/Coromandel
250 Chadwick Road
Chadwick House
Greerton
Tauranga
Phone: 07 571 3050
Email:
strokebop@paradise.net.nz
Tauranga BOP Hearing Association
Advocacy/Education and information for hearing impaired.
250 Chadwick Rd
Chadwick House
Greerton 3112
Phone: 07 578 6476
Fax: 07 578 6476
Email:
tauranga@hearing.org.nz
Tauranga Ongoing Pain Support Grp Inc
Centre for all age groups dealing with chronic pain.
Phone: 07 576 7067
Email:
gglingard@xtra.co.nz
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