Eketāhuna Health Centre – Te Whare Ora o Eketāhuna

CLINIC OPEN Monday – Thursday 9am – 12pm, 2pm – 4pm; Friday 9am -12pm, 1.30pm – 2.45pm. When we are closed, call Healthline on 0800 611 116.
We are situated at 1 Bengston Street, Eketāhuna. We are a registered charity, part funded by Health New Zealand. If you are new to town, please pop in and enrol.
As we come to the end of our financial year, we will be asking the community about our health services; please look out for our survey this June.
Flu vaccines continue be available at Eketāhuna Health Centre. Book in with the nurses. Ask about your
eligibility; it may be free.
Ryan the physiotherapist from Back in Action is now at the health centre every Wednesday; go to
www.getbackinaction.co.nz to book this user pays service

Our Weekly Well-Being activities are:

  • Mondays Chair Yoga 9.45am at St. Cuthbert’s Hall and Wednesdays
  • Menz Shed (next to the health centre) from 9.30am
  • Our next monthly ladies’ brunch will be on Monday 16 June 11am at St. Cuthbert’s Hall. Thank you to Denise.

Gavin for joining us in May and to the vestry group letting us use this wonderful community space. We
celebrated the birthday of our oldest attendee with shepherd’s pie, made from food rescue meat and
community garden veg, and with apple & rhubarb crumble and birthday cake, made by Kate and Kate.
Our community garden continues to be developed; work started on a new covered BBQ area. Many thanks to Waireka Community Trust for the grant to make this happen. We had a great working bee on Thursday 15 May. Many thanks to our volunteers for harvesting potatoes, pumpkin and parsnips for our food bank. If you can join us in June, the working bee will be Thursday 19 June 10am – 12noon.
Eketāhuna Food Bank can provide kai assistance to those living in Eketāhuna. Call or text Emma on 021 250 3015 to access this service.


The health centre provides space in the rooms at the back for:

  • Plunket and Counselling services. Please contact the nurses for a counselling referral.
  • Gym facilities are open during clinic hours. We do require you sign up to use these before you start but
  • thereafter use at your convenience for gold coin donation.
  • Tuesday 3 June 1pm – 3pm Wairarapa Law drop-in free advice
  • Constituency clinic with Mike Butterick or a member of his team: Friday 13 June 10am – 1pm

The popular Eketāhuna Crop Swap is Sunday 15 June 10.30am. Please ensure you bring something garden related to swap. A big thank you Kat & Ali for their demonstration of bottling sauce using the overflow method.


Emma, Kendra, Kim, Sara, Lee-Anne and the Executive Committee
Mission Statement: Te Whare Ora O Eketāhuna – Eketāhuna Health Centre aims to provide services to
promote a healthy community- through affordable health services, community participation and education.

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