Services for Individuals and Whānau
Consultations
Having a respiratory illness doesn’t mean you can’t live a full life. Learning to control asthma or manage Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary disease (COPD) can make a huge difference to you and your family’s quality of life and reduce the risk of severe attacks and hospital admissions. Our Respiratory Nurse Educators provide free consultations either at our offices, or in your home, to help you take control and breathe easier. The goal of these consultations is to understand the current state of your, or your family member’s condition, as well as assessing lifestyle, environment and medication factors that may be affecting it. From there, we build you a management plan and provide education and advice to support you in your journey. Your self-management plan will help you to recognise when your breathing is getting worse and what to do for it.
Breathing Tests
Breathing tests check how well your lungs are working and identify normal and abnormal lung activity. This helps with diagnosis, monitoring progress of respiratory conditions and assists to support better management of your lungs. We provide these free of charge. The test is called Spirometry and it can measure many different things about how you breathe and the function of your lungs. If you are on medication, we will ask that you do not take this for several hours prior to your test so that we can get an accurate function reading. A doctor must refer you for this test however if you would like more information discuss with your doctor or contact us.
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What is HealthOne?
HealthOne is a South Island based secure electronic record that allows registered healthcare providers directly involved in your healthcare, to quickly access information such as your test results, allergies, medications, GP summaries and hospital information. HealthOne adheres to the principles of the Privacy Act 2020 as well as the Rules set out in the Health Information Privacy Code 2020. Access is only possible via an approved highly secure healthcare information network which is regularly audited and tested. Privacy auditing is used to check that only those directly involved in your care are accessing your information. To find out more about HealthOne please visit https://healthone.org.nz/. Please note that you are entitled to restrict the sharing of your healthcare records by contacting 0508 837 872 or emailing HealthOne.privacy@pegasus.health.nz
How good is your asthma control?
Having asthma does not mean you should experience symptoms every day or have it stop you from doing the things you enjoy. If you do, then your asthma may not be well controlled. Take the asthma control test to find out. If you need our support to help control your asthma, contact us.