What is the Hokonui Locality?
We are one of 12 prototypes trialing a new approach to ensure our communities receive the healthcare they require.
The Hokonui Locality plans and makes recommendations for the delivery of healthcare services within the wider Gore District, servicing the needs of our
residents and those who travel from nearby areas to receive treatment here.
The Hokonui Locality partnership has been established with iwi, health, social care, and community organisations, working with the Ngai Tāhu Iwi-Māori Partnership Board (Te Tauraki) and Te Whatu Ora/Health New Zealand, to plan the services that will be delivered by provider networks in our locality.
A new approach to community-led health
This place-based approach to planning and delivering health and wellbeing services is an exciting opportunity to embed a stronger population health focus across the health system.
It supports joined-up care, services that meet the needs of communities, locally driven decisions and a greater focus on prevention and health promotion.
Hokonui community-led health is a place and people-based approach to improving the health of our population, as well as a mechanism for organising health and social services to meet the needs identified by our whānau, community and Te Tauraki (Iwi-Māori Partnership Board).
There are three characteristics to our approach:
It is a partnership with mana whenua, recognising their tino rangatiratanga.
We support locally led solutions that take a holistic approach to wellbeing, acknowledging the range of other factors that impact on a person’s health.
We aim to join up care across communities and improve integration with different layers of the health and social system.
By working in partnership with Te Whatu Ora we seek to better understand our community, people’s lifestyles, health needs, experience of care and what our priorities are.
Understanding our communities will enable Te Whatu Ora to work in partnership with them to better design services that meet our community and its people’s needs.
Our people
A locality partnership has been formed across iwi, health, social care and community organisations.
The Hokonui Locality table members are:
Jo Brand (Chair)
Kaitoko Matauranga - Hokonui Rūnanga
Mihaela Erdelyi
Consumer Representative - Time for Change Te Hurihanga [Southern Mental Health and Addictions Network]
Bronnie Grant
Consumer Representative - Community Health Council
Susan Jones
Practice Manager - Gore Medical Centre
Nicky Coats
Chairperson - Mataura Community Board
Cynthia Fairley
Gore Senior Sergeant - New Zealand Police
Trinity McMahon
Director - Southland - Regional Public Service
Karl Metzler
CEO - Gore Health
Rhonda Reid
Business Manager - Gore Health
Pamela Yorke
Chairperson - Waihopai Toe Toe Community Board
Robyn Morris
Manager - Community Networking Trust
Andy Shute Local Clinical Integrator – Southern Te Whatu Ora
The Hokonui Locality Management team are:
Ceri Macleod
Manager - Hokonui Locality Prototype
Tegan Ramage
Executive Communication Assistant - Hokonui Locality Prototype
Our current priorities
We engaged in community consultation to better understand the needs and priorities of the Hokonui community. The feedback we have received informed the development of our locality plan.
Our locality plan is being developed together with, and endorsed by, Health New Zealand/Te Whatu Ora.
Provider networks collaborate to deliver the outcomes set in the locality plans.