Port Fitzroy
The clinic in Port Fitzroy is locally known as the “Nurse’s Cottage”.
The Nurse’s Cottage has a nurse-run clinic on Monday, Thursday and Friday and a GP/NP clinic on Wednesdays.
The hours for each of these clinic days are 09:00 – 4:00pm
For after-hours healthcare (overnight, weekends and public holidays) there is a Registered Nurse, available within 20 minutes of Port Fitzroy most days and a Clinician (NP or GP) and a Registered Nurse available and on call 24/7 based in Claris that also cover the Northern end of the Island.
If you have an urgent healthcare need, and are closer to Port Fitzroy than Claris, call the Nurse’s Cottage on 09 4290047
If you have an emergency, call 111
History
Built in 1954, the Nurses Cottage was originally both a clinic and accommodation for the Public Health Nurse employed by the Auckland Hospital Board.
The site itself is currently administered by the Department of Conservation.
In the mid 1990s the ADHB gifted the cottage to the Great Barrier Island Community Health Trust.
Over the years since then, the health trust has undertaken many improvement projects on the Nurse’s Cottage for the benefit of the community.
