Vision and Values 2020-2025

Counties Manukau Health Division of Women’s Health Vision and Values 2020-2025

The Women’s Health division at Counties Manukau Health recognises the role of the Maaori people as tangata whenua and Te Tiriti o Waitangi as the founding document of Aotearoa New Zealand.

Women are the central focus for all care activities at Women’s Health.

Following extensive consultation with our women, whaanau, staff and the wider community, we have developed a vision and values for Women’s Health.

The vision and values will support the development of a strategy to encompass all Women’s Health’s activities. Consultation is ongoing and the strategy will be a living document.

Vision

All women living in Counties Manukau have equitable access to woman-centred, compassionate, quality assured, evidencebased and culturally appropriate women’s health care in a setting that suits their needs across the course of their life.

Our Values

Whakawhanaungatanga (connection)

Care is provided in a way that supports a woman’s wairua and mana in the context of her needs and those of her whaanau. Women and their whaanau will easily access women’s health services located as close to home as possible.

Wairua (spirit)

A woman’s health needs are connected to her whaanau and wairua, and this is acknowledged and her mana respected.

Manaakitanga (kindness)

Women are actively supported to contribute to decisions that affect their mana and to avoid feelings of whakamaa (embarrassment). Principles of co-design underpin all consumer-related activities within Women’s Health.

Kotahitanga (unity)

People who work in Women’s Health are provided with a safe and respectful environment in which to learn and grow together. Care in Women’s Health is coordinated across settings, services and disciplines, to maximise safety and wise use of resources.

Rangatiratanga (leadership)

The quality of women’s health care and services must be measured, evaluated and co-designed with consumers of the service. Women’s Health recognises the different health needs of priority populations, and the need to address gaps in services and target population groups whose health outcomes are poorer; in particular, reducing inequity for Maaori and Pacific women, and their babies.