In the 12 months to 30 June 2022 across all services funded as part of the National Telehealth Service (NTS), along with COVID services, we responded to over 5.1 million contacts - nearly 14,000 a day- an increase of 248% on the previous year.

We connected with more than 2.1 million individual people - roughly 1 in 2 people in Aotearoa.

92% of all calls were answered within 10 minutes.

The services are supported by 12 clinical teams of registered nurses, mental health nurses, psychologists, psychotherapists, psychiatrists, counsellors, doctors, paramedics, poisons officers, health advisors, and emergency triage nurses.

Services included

The National Telehealth Service includes the core services listed below. Services follow the principle of ‘every door is the right door’. If required, staff can transfer service users seamlessly to other clinical teams to ensure the right support from the most appropriate professional staff irrespective of the line a person first contacted.

These are just some of the services available:

  • COVID services
  • Vaccination services
  • Disability support
  • Health advice
  • Stop smoking support
  • Alcohol and other drug counselling support
  • Mental health, depression and anxiety counselling support
  • Gambling counselling and support
  • Poisons advice
  • Immunisation advice
  • Advice on prostate cancer
  • Supporting people who call 111
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Telehealth Contact Details

If you want to access any NTS support you can find the contact details here.
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