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