Social Media Community Guidelines

We care about achieving health equity for our community. Together, the Te Whatu Ora Counties Manukau health system will work with others to achieve equity in key Health indicators for Maaori, Pacific and communities with health disparities.

This is a place to discuss Te Whatu Ora - Counties Manukau - our initiatives, services, culture, and news – and to foster our growing online community and for you to share your views. We welcome you to leave comments, images, videos and links and to share our content.

If you would like to share your experience of our services, we recommend contacting our customer service team on feedbackcentral@middlemore.co.nz.

We understand that many people are passionate about healthcare – a passion we share. We expect that participants post content and commentary that is constructive, relevant and respectful - and reserve the right to moderate any posts that don’t meet our terms of use and to exclude anyone who violates them.

The following terms of use are in place to promote a quality online environment for people that engage with us online. We do not tolerate the following content:

• Profane, defamatory, offensive or violent language
• Trolling’, or posting deliberately disruptive statements meant to throw comment threads and discussions off-track
• Attacks that identify individuals, companies, unions or other organisations
• Any comments meant to harass, threaten or abuse an individual
• Discriminatory comments regarding race, ethnicity, religion, gender, disability, sexual orientation or political beliefs
• Spam, advertising, or link baiting (embedding a link in your post to draw traffic to your own site)
• Violations of copyright or intellectual property rights
• Content that relates to confidential or business information
• Content determined to be inappropriate, in poor taste, or otherwise contrary to the purposes of our page. This includes misinformation and off-topic information
• Personal promotion or the promotion of commercial products, services or brands
• Any content which breaches the confidentiality of our patients, their relatives, staff or other individuals.

Postings or external links to our page do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Te Whatu Ora Counties Manukau.