Temporary website while we rebuild our infrastructure

Our founding organisation is in New Zealand so we acknowledge the indigenous people, the Maori, in our greetings and acknowledgements:

Naumai, haeremai. Rau rangatira ma, tena koutou katoa. Ka nui te hari kua tae mai koutou mo tenei kaupapa honore. 

Welcome, welcome! Esteemed leaders, greetings to you all. There is much joy that you have joined us for this important purpose.

Our Maori name, "Waiatawhai" can roughly be translated as "healing waters of compassion"

We have exciting developments on the horizon, so please see the NEWS page for updates!

It's our belief that all health practitioners enter their profession with a genuine desire to provide caring and compassionate service to patients and families. Unfortunately, the evolution of our health professions and institutions has seriously limited the expression of that humanity and compassion. Clinical detachment and objectivity are emphasised over and above compassionate caring. Our hospitals are overcrowded and under stress. Resources are limited. There doesn't seem to be time to care.

Yet experience shows that when practitioners develop the skills to bring open-hearted compassion to their patients, then the effectiveness of care greatly increases and our patients and families feel safe and cared for.

When you cast aside your fears and learn to connect deeply with your patients, you will discover a renewed joy and satisfaction in your practice. Please join us in supporting this change across all of our health services.

Compassion in Healthcare was founded in 2007 as a charitable trust in New Zealand. However, this was not a suitable legal vehicle to carry forward our international work so we are regrouping for a new launch, with a new on-line platform and new organisational form. The Compassion in Healthcare charitable trust was dissolved in 2011 and the remaining funds donated to the Christchurch Earthquake Appeal.

This is a temporary website to continue our presence and to allow those who are interested to access materials and register their contact details. Please navigate through the site using the menu buttons on the left.

A new organisation is rising from the ashes....     HEARTS IN HEALTHCARE - champions for compassionate care

You can find us at www.heartsinhealthcare.com