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If you have a medical emergency and you require urgent assistance, please call 111 immediately.
A medical emergency includes chest pain or tightness, difficulty breathing, choking, severe bleeding or bleeding that won’t stop, sudden weakness or difficulty talking, fainting or unconsciousness.
For general health advice, please call Healthline 0800 611 116

We’ve put this information and these links together to help you help yourself and your whānau

1. Healthline app to get a call back from the team
2. Healthline NZ support is free
3. COVID health information – including antivirals
4. COVID vaccination information
5. Online help for health info and self-care resources
6. Find details and opening times for pharmacies and healthcare providers
7. Summer health information

Healthline app to get a call back from the team

If you don’t need immediate help and would like one of the Healthline team to call you back?

1. Download the free Healthline NZ App
2. Register your details

Click on the correct App Store from your mobile. or click here for download instructions

Healthline NZ support is free

Good news. Healthline NZ support is free .

We will never ask you for your credit card details or to sign up to pay for support or advice. There are organisations that do that (some have 'healthline' as part of the name of their service). We don't. If you're worried that you may have been scammed – this site is useful Scamwatch | Consumer Protection

Online help for health info and self-care resources

The Health Navigator website has reliable and trustworthy health information and self-care resources – including about diarrhoea, vomiting, sunburn, the morning after pill.

Information about self-isolating, support, and treatment for people with mpox (monkeypox) and what to do if you’re a close contact.

Find details and opening times for pharmacies and other healthcare providers

Healthpoint provides up-to-date information about healthcare providers (GPs, pharmacies, social services, hospitals, testing and vaccination sites, mental health support) and their opening hours and services.

If you’re away from home and have forgotten your regular medications, most pharmacies can help with a three-day supply. Search for a pharmacy near you.