Emergency Numbers

Here’s a list of some important numbers to keep by your phone in case you need to make a call.

Emergency Numbers

Police, Ambulance, Fire Dept.

• From Land Line: 111
• From Mobile Phones: 111

Poisons Information Centre

• 24 Hour Information Line: 0800 764 766
• For general information: (03) 479 7248

Advice & Support Numbers

• Plunketline: 0800 933 922
• Barnados Parent & Counselling Help: 0800 4 PARENT (0800 472 7368)
• Child Safety Foundation: (09) 638 7603
• La Leche League: (Breast Feeding Help & information) (09) 846 0752
• Maternal Mental Health: (09) 630 9943 x4454
• National Women’s Health Information: (09) 630 9943 x3516
• Parent & Family Resource Centre (for families of children with special needs): (09) 636 0351
• Family Information Service, Starship Hospital: (09) 307 4955
• Parents’Centre: (04) 560 1990

Hospitals

Auckland

• Starship Children’s Hospital: (09) 307 8900
• Middlemore Hospital: (09) 276 0000
• National Women’s Hospital: (09) 638 9919

Wellington

• Lower Hutt Hospital: (04) 566 6999
• Wellington Hospital: (04) 385 5999

Christchurch

• Christchurch Women’s Hospital: (03) 364 4699
• Christchurch Hospital: (03) 364 0640

For more information see Kid’s first aid or Parenting