Vision

"Quality Living - Healthy Lives"

Mission

"Enable New Zealand will facilitate and deliver quality access to resources for people with identified health and disability support needs"

Enable New Zealand delivers a range of services for older people and disabled people. These services are contracted by the Ministry of Health, ACC and for some other District Health Boards.

Enable New Zealand: 

• is the biggest provider of equipment and housing modification services for the Health and Disability Sector in New Zealand.
• is the largest provider of Disability Information Services in New Zealand.
• is home to Supportlinks - one of the best Needs Assessment and Service Coordination Services in New Zealand.
• processed over 105,000 applications last year for a range of programmes including the spectacle subsidies for children, hearing aids subsidies and equipment and housing modification provision for the Ministry of Health and equipment provision for ACC.
• managed the return, refurbishment and reissue of around 31,000 pieces of Ministry of Health owned equipment last year at a net saving of around $20 million over the last two years.
• 11,000 referrals to purchase 19,000 pieces of equipment for ACC with 5,584 being reissued at a net saving of 1 million per year.
• purchased 33,204 items of Common List Equipment at a value of $5.8 million last year.
• managed 9000 requests for disability information each year.
• received 186,000 visitors to the Weka Website each year.

Enable New Zealand is an operating division of MidCentral District Health Board.