Press Release – ProCare Health ProCare, New Zealands largest primary health organisation, has appointed its first Youth Advisory Group. The fourteen young people who make up the group will provide guidance to the organisation, based on lived experience, to help improve …
ProCare, New Zealand’s largest primary health organisation, has appointed its first Youth Advisory Group. The fourteen young people who make up the group will provide guidance to the organisation, based on lived experience, to help improve health outcomes for children and young people across Auckland. The group will also guide implementation of ProCare’s Population Health Strategy.
ProCare Associate Clinical Director Dr Sue Wells says, “data taken from our population health needs analysis, called Our Picture of Health, shows that one in four young people aged 15 – 24 enrolled with a general practice did not visit their GP over a two year period.