Our PHO is Partnership Health Canterbury

A Primary Health Organisation (PHO) is a new way of arranging health care in the community to make sure people get the first level health care they need.

It's a group of health providers whose job it is to look after all the people enrolled with them.

The government gives the PHOs funding to subsidise a range of health services:

• providing care and treatment when people are ill
• helping people stay healthy
• reaching out to those groups in their community who have poor health or who are missing out on primary health care