Accident & Medical

Specialising in accident and urgent medical care, performing procedures such as plastering, suturing and wound management.

X-Ray

Radiology service available on site at most clinics, providing a private radiology service. As a complementary service to White Cross, the radiologists are committed to the provision of a quality diagnostic radiology service responsive to the needs of our patients and referring practitioners.

Dental

White Cross Accident and Medical provide excellence dental services at many of our clinics.

Repatriation

White Cross Repatriation Services
White Cross has experience and expertise in repatriation of sick or injured United Kingdom and Irish citizens from destinations predominantly in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific (on one occasion from Katmandu and another from Bangkok).

White Cross Repatriation Services has operated as an agent since 1999 for International Medical Rescue, providing doctors and nurses for the repatriation of sick or injured passengers throughout the Australasia and Pacific region.

Repatriation Services for sick or injured clients

• Repatriation to the United Kingdom (UK) for client's of International Medical Rescue from Australasia, New Zealand and the Pacific using medical staff based in New Zealand.
• Repatriation to New Zealand or Australia for UK client’s sick or injured in the Pacific region for assessment or definitive treatment.
• Reduced costs on repatriation flights booked at point of origin, through our strategic partner Whangarei Flight Centre.
• Specialised repatriations available for clients requiring Consultants eg Anesthetists and Intensive care specialists.
• Availability of medical staff to do pre flight assessments, or provide a second opinion regarding fitness of patient to fly.

• Formed in 1999 in association with International Medical Rescue (London), 80 successful repatriations in this time.
• Repatriations have included patients who have suffered spinal injuries, strokes, cardiac and respiratory problems, head injuries, orthopedic injuries and psychiatric injuries (as examples).
• Area serviced – currently Australasia and South Pacific though happy to expand into the South East Asian areas (and others if required).
• Base staff of 20 – Doctors and nurses - but have available to us large workforce of WX and our allied work partners.
• Strategic alliance with Dianne Hall travel agent and owner of Whangarei Flight Centre – Travel Associates (data included).
• Equipment available – standard medical kit with variances for nursing and medical staff (see separate data).
• Other major equipment available on a hireage basis.

• Travel medicine skills eg Vaccinations, Acute infectious diseases assessment
• Current Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certification
• Current knowledge of advanced resuscitation practices
• Advanced fracture management skills
• Soft tissue and sports medicine training
• General Aviation medicine skills
• Occupational health Pre-employment medicals, Audiology, Lung function testing and Drug screening

• Client satisfaction
• Professional performance (technical quality)
• Resource use (efficiency)
• Risk management

• Medical assessments on sick or injured travellers including consultant assessments for insurance reasons.
• Second opinions for travellers, and insurance companies.
• General travellers’ advice, including vaccinations and assessments.

Drug Testing

Evidential Drug Testing
LabPLUS, the Laboratory Service of Auckland City Hospital and White Cross Healthcare established a joint service for the collection and detection of drugs of abuse in urine in May 2006.

The service is for the evidential procedure for sample collection according to the standard AS/NZ 4308:2001, for which LabPLUS has accreditation. White Cross Healthcare offers collection services for pre-employment, workplace / employment, legal (Family court, Employment Court, ERA), visa applications, social services, and other such occasions where evidential collection and detection is required. The service is fee paying only with payment either at the time of collection by the donor or on account by the referring agency if pre-arranged with either LabPLUS or White Cross.
All evidential collections at selected White Cross centres are by appointment only.

White Cross also has an arrangement to provide evidential collections to be processed through ESR Laboratories at its Otahuhu and Henderson clinics.

In-Clinic Urine Drug Screening
A new service offering greater convenience and less down time when screening prospective applicants.

The test is done in the clinic and results can be read at 5 minutes indicating either a negative result or that further testing is required.

All in clinic collections at selected White Cross centres are by appointment only and are fee paying only with payment either at the time of collection by the donor or on account by the referring agency if pre-arranged with White Cross.

Pre-Employment Medicals

Pre-Employment Medicals
Pre-Employment Examination can be tailored to suit a Company’s need. Components can include;
• Medical History
• Medical Examination including:
• Height, Weight and Blood sugar
• Vision, Screening Hearing and Lung Function test
• Cardio-respiratory assessment
• Musculoskeletal Assessment
• Urinalysis(Dipstick)
• Urine Drug Screening

White Cross is able to provide a comprehensive pre-employment form or our staff can be trained to complete the Company’s internal Occupational Health Monitoring Form during the medical assessment.

ADDITIONAL INVESTIGATIONS:

Audiology
A baseline assessment of hearing, essential in noisy work environments for monitoring hazard exposure.

Lung Function
An industry standard screening device used to perform a screening level assessment of lung function where there may be exposure to dust and other respiratory hazards.

Injury Management & Recovery

The ability to direct your staff to White Cross to manage any injury, we are fully ACC accreditated, so we can provide optimal patient care but also provide you with certainty of treatment and manage expectations of down time.

We can also provide relevant to your organisation alternative duties assessment or in the case of another practitioners review second assessment, to assist in the optimum patient management.

Vaccination Programmes

Influenza Vaccinations
White Cross offers in clinic flu vaccination services during the “flu season”. Prepaid vouchers can be supplied to your company enabling employees to be immunized at any White Cross clinic 24/7 during the Influenza programme season.

Preventative Healthcare
As part of Health and Safety awareness in the workplace, White Cross is able to offer immunisation for Hepatitis A, B, Tetanus, Polio and Typhoid for employees where there is a risk of exposure.

Immigration Medical Services

Based in Ponsonby and Henderson.
Phone 09 361 6536 for more information.

AMPA

www.ampa.co.nz

History

• Formed in 1992 by doctors working in hospital emergency departments and community clinics.
• Became an incorporated society in 1995
• Medical Council recognition as a branch of medicine in 2000.

• Consists of doctors who work in community Clinics and hospital Emergency Departments.
• Approximately 170 members, 30% hospital / 70% community.

• To advance the delivery of quality patient care.
• To represent its members to statutory bodies, government, the media and other entities.
• To foster research in Accident and Medical care.

• Vocational Registration
• Administration of the four-year post-graduate Accident and Medical training programme culminating in Fellowship of AMPA.