Northland District Health Board

The Northland District Health Board, like most other district health boards, came into effect on 1 January 2001 established by the New Zealand Public Health and Disability Act 2000.[1]

A new two-storey building at Bay of Islands Hospital in Kawakawa opened in December 2018. It has a radiology, accident and medical facility services with four acute bays, two resuscitation bays, two consulting and triage rooms, and a procedure, isolation and paediatric room, increasing capacity from three to seven beds. It also has a general ward, increasing total beds from 15 to 20.[2]

By June 2019, an extension to the Dargaville inpatient mental health detoxification service extension had been completed, increasing bed numbers from five to eight.[2]

On 1 July 2022, the Northland DHB and the other district health boards were disestablished, with Te Whatu Ora (Health New Zealand) assuming their former functions and operations including hospitals and health services.[3] The Northland DHB was brought under Te Whatu Ora's Northern division.[4]

The board serves the Far North District, Whangarei District and Kaipara District (which equates to the Northland Region), as defined in Schedule 1 of the New Zealand Public Health and Disability Act 2000 and based on territorial authority and ward boundaries as constituted as at 1 January 2001.[5] The area can be adjusted through an Order in Council.[6]

The initial board was fully appointed. Since the 2001 local elections, the board has been partially elected (seven members) and in addition, up to four members get appointed by the Minister of Health. The minister also appoints the chairperson and deputy-chair from the pool of eleven board members.[7] The inaugural chairperson, Wayne Brown, was concurrently chairperson of the Tairāwhiti DHB.[8] Following the first elections in October 2001, Lynette Stewart was appointed as chairperson.[9] Stewart was replaced by Tony Norman from 1 January 2010.[10] After one term, Norman was replaced by Sally Macauley in December 2016.[11] Macauley also served one term and was replaced by Harry Burkhardt in December 2019.[12]

Chairpersons

The following table gives a list of chairpersons of Northland District Health Board:

Name	Portrait	Start	End	Source
Wayne Brown		January 2001	November 2001	[8]
Lynette Stewart		December 2001	December 2009	[9]
Tony Norman		January 2010	December 2016	[10]
Sally Macauley		December 2016	December 2019	[11]
Harry Burkhardt		December 2019	present	[12]

• New Zealand Public Health and Disability Act 2000, Parliamentary Counsel Office, 2000, retrieved 3 May 2020