Invercargill:
Service name: Smoking Cessation Service, Kew Hospital
Contact: Dawn Acker
Phone: 03 2181 949, extension 8512
Fax: 03 2181 194
Email: dawn.acker@sdhb.govt.nz
Brief description: Dawn is based at Kew Hospital and offers a free service for inpatients and staff. Health professionals are encouraged to raise smokefree issues with patients or parents of children who are patients.
Service name: Smoking Cessation Counsellor , PHO
Contact: Judy Wilson
Phone: 03 2189 112
Fax: 03 2189 113
Email: judy@bailliecorkill.co.nz
Brief description: Judy is a practice nurse trained in cessation. She delivers a SDHB contract held by Baillie & Corkill, GPs, and is based at 60 Victoria Avenue, Invercargill. She works 4 days a week in Invercargill, and accepts referrals from throughout the city. She works actively in schools and workplaces.
Winton:
Service name: Smoking Cessation, Winton Medical Centre Ltd Trust
Contact: Debbie McDougall
Phone: 03 2360 034
Email: wmp@xtra.co.nz
Brief description: Debbie offers a free local service which is funded by the Winton Medical Centre Ltd Trust. Referrals are from GPs or self-referrals.
Southland wide:
Service name: Maori Aukati Kaipaipa Programme. Nga Kete Matauranga Pounamu Charitable Trust
Contact: Teina Wilmshurst; Barbara Metzger
Phone: 0800 925 242; 03 214 5123: Teina: 027 241 4512
Fax: 03 214 5260
Email: teina@kaitahu.maori.nz; barbara@kaitahu.maori.nz
Brief description: Teina offers a free mobile Southland wide service, mainly for Maori women and their whanau. She may visit, or remain in contact by phone. She also runs a programme at Invercargill prison. Barbara works with pregnant women and their whanau/family to make changes in their smoking for a better start to life. Her service is also mobile.
Rural Southland and Lakes District:
Service name: Rural Smokefree Support
Contact: (Appointment pending)
Phone: 03 2181 949, extension 8512
Fax: 03 2181194
Brief description: This position is based at Kew Hospital and works three days a week with rural Southlanders and residents of the Queenstown and Te Anau areas. Education in schools may be arranged.
Service name: Smokechange
Contact: Jo, Carol or Sharon
Phone: 0800 005 050
Fax: 03 3799 946
Email: info@efc.co.nz
Brief description: A free telephone service available to pregnant & breastfeeding mothers and their families throughout Southland. Referrals from midwives, hospitals, GPs, self-referrals