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 Enable New Zealand Needs Assessment & Service Coordination - one of the best Needs Assessment and Service Coordination Services in New Zealand.
• Processed over 80,082 applications last year for a range of programmes including the spectacle subsidies for children, equipment and housing modification provision for the Ministry of Health and equipment provision for ACC.
• Managed the return, refurbishment and reissue of around 26,565 pieces of Ministry of Health owned equipment last year at a net saving of around $14 million each year.
• 13,857 referrals to purchase 18,386 pieces of equipment for ACC with 3,382 being reissued at a net saving of $1.5 million per year.
• Purchased 24,545 items of Ministry of Health List Equipment at a value of $4.8 million last year.
• Manages 9000 requests for disability information each year.
• Receives 186,000 visitors to the Weka Website each year.

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