Te Whatu Ora Providers
All children with cancer have their care co-ordinated by a specialist multi disciplinary child cancer team based at either Christchurch Hospital (CHOC) or Starship Hospital (Starship Blood and Cancer Service). These two tertiary centres work closely with fourteen regional paediatric teams so that patients can receive as much of their care as close to home as is safely possible.
These specialist centres and regional teams work closely with supportive care organisations like Child Cancer Foundation, Leukaemia and Blood Cancer New Zealand, CanTeen and Ronald McDonald House who provide practical and emotional support and advice to patients and their families while they are at home, in hospital and in the community.
Children’s Haematology Oncology Centre
Children’s Haematology Oncology Centre (CHOC) at Christchurch Hospital is one of two specialist treatment centres for child cancer in New Zealand. Patients are referred from throughout the South Island and the lower part of the North Island.
Starship Blood and Cancer Centre
Starship Blood and Cancer is one of the two specialist treatment centres for child cancer in New Zealand. Patients are referred from the North Island from Cape Reinga to North of Wellington. It provides a national referral service for low volume high-technology aspects of care such as allogeneic stem cell transplants.
Shared Care Centres
Starship Blood & Cancer Centre and Children’s Haematology Oncology Centre (CHOC) at Christchurch Hospital share care of patients with fourteen regional paediatric teams located at hospitals across the country:
- Dunedin Hospital
- Gisborne Hospital
- Hastings Hospital
- Invercargill Hospital
- Nelson Hospital
- Palmerston North Hospital
- Rotorua Hospital
- Taranaki Base Hospital
- Tauranga Hospital
- Waikato Hospital
- Wellington Hospital
- Whakatane Hospital
- Whanganui Hospital
- Whangarei Hospital
Shared Care Centres can access password protected resources by clicking here.