The provider arm - Health Waikato

Health Waikato is Waikato DHB's provider arm of hospital and health services with an annual budget of more than $701.6 million and 5238 staff.

It has six groups across five sites, two continuing care facilities, three birthing units, a mental health facility and 20 community bases offering a comprehensive range of primary, secondary and tertiary health services.

Read more about Health Waikato.

Did you know that we provided 13,043 surgical operations at Waikato DHB in the first six months of 2011-2012? Or that there were nearly 50,000 presentations to one of our five emergency departments and that we did 3.93 million blood tests? The statistics are staggering.

But while we do some great work, our did not attend clinics rate is less than satisfactory. When people do not attend their clinic appointments, that is valuable health dollars wasted. Each did not attend outpatient attendance costs Waikato DHB $150 per patient. That represents $1.668 million for the first six months of the financial year.

Summary of statistics for Waikato DHB first six months 2011-2012.

Take a look at the summary from last year.

• Waikato Hospital
  
  
• A-Z of services
• Critical care
• Surgery
• Medicine
• Oncology
• Waikids child and youth health
• Women's Health
• Allied Health
• Birthing Units
  
• Clinical and Support Services
• Mental Health & Addictions
• Older Persons & Rehabilitation
• Population Health/Public Health
• Rural and Community
• Thames Hospital
  

Visit the Building Programme page for more information about the new Emergency Department and Acute Services Building, the Meade Clinical Centre and Thames Birthing Unit.

Quirky statistics

• 100,000 pieces of linen washed each week
• 1500 bags of soiled linen collected daily
• 12,000 face cloths a month disappear into a big black hole
• 20 pairs of false teeth found amongst soil linen a year

• 7680ltrs of disinfectant used for general cleaning per month
• 3840 (standard) and 2260 (jumbo) sized toilet rolls used in public toilets (Waikato Hospital only) per month
• 356 clothes and 186 mops needed to clean the new Acute Services building per daily.