ABOUT US.
With the Woman's Health Bus our aim is to provide communities with trained health practitioners, and reduce the burden on women seeking specialist women's health services in Rural New Zealand.
OUR TEAM
Helen Paterson
Gynaecologist & Co-Director
Alice van Zijl
Practice Nurse & Co-Director
Chaune Engelbrecht
Administration
Helen started daydreaming about a Woman’s Health Bus in 2015, and is a co-director for this venture. As well as being a clinical and operating gynaecologist, Helen is passionate about education. Helen is an active educator for nurses, GPs and other specialists.
Alice is a Nurse Practitioner and co-director of the Women’s Health Bus. She provides sexual and reproductive health care within the community, including colposcopy, long-acting reversible contraception insertion and removal, cervical screening, and other women’s health services, supporting accessible and equitable care across the region.
Chaune is our amazing administrative support. Chaune helps us in her spare time so often is fitting this in around her other two jobs.
Chaune is also a health care assitant and phleobotomist and she may be on the bus as a clinical support.
SOCIAL MEDIA.
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