NZNO nurses, healthcare assistants and some midwives plan to strike from 9am on Wednesday 30 July to 9am on Thursday 31 July. Patient safety is our priority and our hospitals will remain open. Continue to attend all appointments unless we have contacted you directly to reschedule.
The CADS consumer team works across all services to make sure the voices, interests and perspectives of people who are using or who have used CADS are included in our services.
You can call the Consumer team on 09 815 5830
Contact the consumer advisor by:
Text or call the Consumer liaisons on:
CADS thrives on client feedback and we always want to hear about people's experience of CADS so feel free to get in touch. Your voice counts.
'Consumer' is one of the terms used to refer to anyone with direct personal lived experience of problems caused by and associated with their use of alcohol and other drugs. Other terms that get used include client, lived experience, service user, tangata whai ora, tangata whai i te ora, and patient.
The CADS consumer team consists of a consumer advisor who works across all the services and 3 consumer liaisons working with individual teams:
The team makes sure the voices, interests and perspectives of people who are using or who have used CADS are included in activities such as:
We do this by providing pathways for people to share their thoughts and feedback about their experience of CADS through surveys, suggestion boxes and group evaluations.
We have downloadable information about our services and drug facts on the Health NZ website.
Community alcohol and drug service (CADS) resources — Health NZ
