Our name Peke Waihanga represents the making, creating and innovating we do to support a person’s limb. This name is central to our purpose of caring for our patient community.
Our name represents our entire organisation and all of the work we do across prosthetics, orthotics and peer support.
Our Artificial Limb Service is a specialty healthcare provider focusing on the needs of amputees. Our services include clinical assessment, prosthetic manufacturing, rehabilitation, and limb care.
Our Orthotic Service provides clinical assessment, consultation and treatment relating to limb support, mobility and care. We specialise in the fitting, making and use of orthoses.
Our Peer Support Service provides informal support to those adapting to limb loss. We match individuals with trained supporters who have been there and done that. Our supporters can relate to those in a similar situation to themselves. To learn more, visit the Peer Support Service at www.peersupport.nz.
This illustration symbolises our organisation. We made it through many consultations with our kaimahi (staff), patients and cultural advisors. It represents who we are and what we do.
Each part of the illustration was carefully chosen and put in place to reflect the relationship between our people, the variety of Mahi (work) we do, and the aspirations we have for our tūroro (patients).
In this illustration:
By bringing these elements together, we can inspire and remind our staff of the positive, far-reaching, impact our actions have.
Together, these words come to mean ‘to make, innovate and create for the limb’.
For us, it means to care for all people and that everyone is welcomed and accepted.
In our organisation, we associate Pūmanawa with our staff and strive to weave together their potential. Our people are at the heart of our organisation.
In our organisation, a hand represents a person as an individual contributor to the processes of innovation and creation.
