We aspire to make Canterbury the preferred district for health workers in New Zealand. Our people are health’s frontline - skilled, trained practitioners with a wealth of knowledge and experience, caring for people in our hospitals and in the community. They also provide meals, cleaning, laundry services, diagnostic services and are specialist technicians. They listen, respond to issues, monitor progress, take care of administration, and keep everything running smoothly. We are all driven by a shared vision of promoting, enhancing and facilitating the health and wellbeing of the people of our region.
There are three values that are important to our success:

Our vision and values together make up our mission statement that creates our culture, that is:
Pride, honesty, transparency and commitment to
improving the health and wellbeing of the people of Canterbury.