NZ's largest hospital and main tertiary referral centre, with 1,100+ beds at Grafton. The hospital provides the full spectrum of acute, elective and specialist care for the country's most populous region, anchored by a busy emergency department and specialist units in cardiology, neurosurgery and oncology.

Starship Children's Hospital

Auckland

NZ's national specialist paediatric hospital, co-located with Auckland City Hospital. Starship is the country's only dedicated children's hospital, offering paediatric intensive care, cardiac surgery, oncology and complex subspecialty clinics that draw families and clinicians from across New Zealand and the Pacific.

Middlemore Hospital

Auckland

Counties Manukau's tertiary hospital and national burns and plastics centre. Middlemore serves one of New Zealand's most diverse and fastest-growing populations, operating the national burns unit, a major plastics and reconstructive surgery department, and an internationally respected spinal unit.

North Shore Hospital

Auckland

Waitematā's main acute hospital serving North and West Auckland. The hospital provides 24-hour emergency care, acute medicine and elective surgery for a catchment of over 600,000 people, with expanding specialist services in maternity, paediatrics and older-persons health across Auckland's northern isthmus.

Waikato Hospital

Hamilton

Central North Island's tertiary hospital with regional cardiothoracic and neurosurgery. As the referral hub for the Midland region, Waikato Hospital provides the only cardiothoracic surgery service outside Auckland and delivers complex neurosurgery, trauma care and maternal-fetal medicine for the upper North Island.

Wellington Regional Hospital

Wellington

Central region tertiary hospital, home to the national blood service and children's hospital. The hospital integrates adult acute services, a paediatric inpatient unit and the New Zealand Blood Service, while its specialist units in renal medicine, oncology and infectious diseases serve the lower North Island and the top of the South Island.

Hutt Hospital

Lower Hutt

Acute secondary hospital and national burns unit for the lower North Island. Hutt Hospital delivers emergency, medical and surgical care for the Hutt Valley and Wairarapa, operating one of New Zealand's busiest general surgery programmes alongside specialist maternity and rehabilitation services.

Christchurch Hospital

Christchurch

South Island's largest tertiary hospital and a major trauma and teaching centre. The hospital provides the only Level 1 trauma service on the South Island, hosts the region's major transplant and cardiothoracic programmes, and is co-located with the University of Otago Christchurch School of Medicine for integrated clinical training.

Dunedin Hospital

Dunedin

Otago's tertiary hospital, training centre for the University of Otago medical school. With a heritage dating back over 150 years, the hospital offers a comprehensive range of acute and specialist services while serving as the principal teaching hospital for one of Australasia's most respected medical schools.

Tauranga Hospital

Tauranga

Bay of Plenty's main acute hospital servicing one of NZ's fastest-growing regions. Tauranga Hospital manages a rapidly expanding population across the Western Bay, providing emergency, maternity, surgical and rehabilitation services while building specialist capacity in cancer care and cardiology to meet regional demand.