Harbour Hospice’s Open Doors programme enables patients to benefit from Hospice care much earlier in their journey. What makes it special is that it was also one of the first services Hospice offered when it was set up 40 years ago.
Opening doors for people like Ted
Harbour Hospice is asking its community to support its Open Doors programme, created so that people can benefit from hospice’s care much earlier in their journey.
Collaborative study sees vital drug funded
A collaboration between Harbour Hospice and other members of the New Zealand Hospice Pharmacist Group has resulted in Pharmac fully funding a drug vital to the care of hospice patients.
Small change makes for bighearted Kiwiana fundraiser
Harbour Hospice volunteer Maria Braam auctions vintage jar of copper coins on Trademe to raise money for the charity that cared for her late husband, Pieter.
Shore Project Update - April 2023
We’re delighted to share with you that the $20 million refurbishment of Harbour Hospice North Shore is now complete.
Leading the way in narrative therapy
Harbour Hospice counsellor Sasha Pilkington is chartering new territory in the teaching of contemporary narrative therapy in palliative care through writing “teaching tales”.
Hospice patients’ stories inspire wedding dress show
Stanmore Bay local Yvonne Payne is putting together a one-of-a-kind show, Wedding Dresses Through The Decades, next month, to raise funds for Harbour Hospice.
‘Mum, make it happen’: Quilts donated to hospice to honour local GP
The late Heidi MacRae had always been a very organised person. So, it was only fitting that when the well-respected North Shore GP was facing the end of life in 2022, following a breast cancer diagnosis in 2021, she assigned jobs to the people she loved.
From Barcelona to Auckland: Why I moved countries to work for hospice
Six years ago Dr Eugenia Romboli, along with her partner and three children, said goodbye to everyone and everything they knew in Spain to emigrate to New Zealand for a role as a Senior Medical Specialist at Harbour Hospice.
Saying yes to life
A growing number of Hospice patients have non-cancer illnesses and our clinical staff come from a broad range of disciplines to ensure patients’ wide and varied palliative care needs are met.
