A message from Chief Executive, Deborah Bush QSM

It’s wonderful to meet you here through our website. Thanks for taking the time to find out more about us and the services and programmes we provide.

Endometriosis New Zealand is recognised as a global leader in providing special services for all those whose lives are influenced in some way with endometriosis and persitent pelvic pain.

On a day to day basis, we support women and girls everywhere either virtually or in person.   You’ll find us in schools delivering the me programme, in workplaces with WISE and in hospitals with the Patient Partnering Programme.  We’re the friendly voice on the end of the information phone line and we work closely with those health professionals who treat the disease. We’re developing initiatives and programmes to reach the endometriosis community with the aim of improving health outcomes for the tens of thousands with the condition in New Zealand alone.

Endometriosis NZ has affiliated support groups in Auckland, Wellington, Nelson, Christchurch and Southland. We have women in other regions and towns who are contact people and happy for you to have a chat for local support.  Just contact us and we’ll try to help.  

Each month I see women and girls though the private clinics in Auckland, Hamilton, Palmerston North and Christchurch. These clinics focus on a multi-disciplinary holistic approach to treatment and it’s heartening knowing women and girls have received the very best in care through a combination of treatments which can include surigical resection of endometriosis, a medical management plan and help with finding practical solutions to learning to live well with the condition.  We’re working hard to bring our part in this process to hospitals through the Patient Partnering Programme.

I encourage you to contact me about services you would find helpful to improve your health.  I encourage you to contact me if you are a health provider wanting to add services, programmes or resources to support your practice. Let us know how we can help you or just as importantly, how you’d like to be involved.

Our new website gives you up to date information about endometriosis, treatments and management and the services and programmes available through ENZ.  Don’t forget to pop into our adolescent website – the first for young people in the world www.me.school.nz

In 2010 we celebrated our 25^th anniversary.  Now we’re on the next phase of our journey and the changes we’ve made are more than just a rebrand .    But, as we all know, you can’t plan for everything and the Christchurch earthquakes from September 4, 2010, on Boxing Day, on February 22, 2011 and all the aftershocks have really knocked us about and caused major fundraising events to be cancelled.  We really need your help too and that’s what THE BIG HUG APPEAL  is all about.  

I look forward to catching up with you again.  I respond to all correspondence and I’d love to hear from you.    

Deborah