About Us
About Us
Southern Cross Healthcare - caring for more
New Zealanders
Southern Cross Healthcare is one of the largest private healthcare networks in New Zealand, supporting the health and wellbeing of New Zealanders from Northland to Southland.
In the financial year ending 30 June 2025, we delivered care to more than 118,000 patients through our hospitals and endoscopy clinics; worked with over 82,000 allied health and rehabilitation clients; and delivered community-based health, mental health, and wellness services to over 52,000 clients. Find out more >
Southern Cross Healthcare is proud to be an integral part of New Zealand’s wider healthcare system; providing services to insurance-funded, ACC, Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora, employer-funded and self-paying people.
As a for-purpose organisation under the Southern Cross Health Trust, we seek to advance the provision of quality healthcare in Aotearoa New Zealand, today and for generations to come.
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Our core services
Southern Cross Healthcare is New Zealand’s largest independent healthcare network. A nationwide family of joint venture and wholly owned hospitals; specialist centres; physiotherapy; rehabilitation; and employer health and wellness providers. From post-operative rehabilitation and pain management, to workplace-based vaccinations and mental health services, Southern Cross Healthcare’s focus is committed to better health for more New Zealanders. Find out more >
Private surgical hospitals
Southern Cross hospitals have been a trusted part of New Zealand’s healthcare system for over 40 years. We are proud to be New Zealand’s favourite private hospitals and through our wholly-owned and joint-venture partner hospitals. In our 2025 financial year, over 118,000 patients were cared for at our hospitals and endoscopy clinics.
Specialist centres
Our specialist centres are devoted to the diagnosis and treatment in specific areas of health. Southern Cross specialist centres include world class radiation and endoscopy facilities.
Physiotherapy and rehabilitation
Over 82,000 clients received physical rehabilitation and physiotherapy support from the Southern Cross Healthcare network in our 2025 financial year. All services are delivered by healthcare professionals who are experts in their fields.
Phoebe, Southern Cross Wellness Partners
Workplace health
In our 2025 financial year, we treated over 52,000 community health, workplace health, and mental health clients. This included vaccinations, health checks, occupational health monitoring, pre-employment medicals, mental health services, and CPR training.
Our values
Southern Cross Healthcare is driven by a clear purpose to advance the provision of quality healthcare in Aotearoa New Zealand. Our three values are at the core of everything we do. Find out more >
Care first
Ko te manaakitanga te mauri o te ora, ko te aroha te manawa o te mahi.
Caring is the life force of wellbeing, love is the heart of our work.
Better together
Ko te mauri ki te mahi tahi me te ora, ko te Kotahitanga te kaha o te tangata.
The essence of working together, wellbeing, and unity is the strength of our people.
Pursue Excellence
Ko te mana o te angitū, ko te mauri o te whakairo hou, me te hihiri, ko te whanaungatanga.
The power of success is the quality of fresh thinking, energy and relationships.
Southern Cross Health Trust
The Southern Cross Health Trust is a charitable trust established almost 50 years ago with a vision to give more New Zealanders access to timely, affordable, and quality private healthcare.
The Trust delivers this vision via its subsidiary, Southern Cross Healthcare Limited (Southern Cross Healthcare), which has a primary purpose of advancing the provision of quality healthcare in Aotearoa New Zealand.
The Southern Cross Health Trust is proud to address unmet health-related needs in many meaningful ways including via the social impact initiatives listed below.
You can find out more about the important contribution the Trust makes to healthcare in Aotearoa New Zealand in its latest annual report.
Charitable Surgery Programme
Good health is everyone’s right and New Zealanders deserve access to the best care available. Unfortunately, some surgical treatments which help people maintain quality of life can be unaffordable, or publicly funded surgery cannot be accessed within a reasonable time frame. With the support of credentialled medical practitioners who generously donate their services, the Trust has funded over $2.4m towards charitable surgical procedures in Southern Cross hospitals since 2017.
Southern Cross Nursing Scholarships
The Southern Cross Health Trust has partnered with AUT to offer substantial support to nursing students through the Southern Cross Nursing Scholarship programme for 2025. This collaborative initiative addresses the everyday needs of nursing students and supports them into healthcare. The Trust is funding 17 scholarships for AUT nursing students, which include a contribution to course fees, a $500 weekly stipend during clinical placements, and $500 towards general health and wellbeing. The Nursing Council exam fee is paid for in the final year of study. Additionally, scholarship students will benefit from priority clinical placements and part-time work opportunities at Southern Cross hospitals. All first-year students (around 400) will also receive vouchers for nursing uniforms and shoes.
Funding nursing roles at the City Missions
Southern Cross Health Trust has been a proud supporter of the Calder Centre at Auckland City Mission (Te Tāpui Atawhai) since 2018. In 2025, this support expanded to include the Wellington and Christchurch City Missions.
The Trust is committed to funding a nursing role at each City Mission for a term of three years. The three positions – a nurse practitioner in Auckland and Wellington and a registered nurse in Christchurch – will provide essential health services for residents and clients who may be experiencing homelessness or have extreme financial challenges.
Nurses are at the heart of healthcare delivery in New Zealand, and it is crucial that everyone has access to the healthcare they deserve, regardless of their circumstances.
We've delivered more care than ever before
In our last financial year (1 July 2024 and 30 June 2025), the Southern Cross Healthcare network
delivered more care than ever before. Learn more >
We are a people business
Care is at the heart of all we do; and as such Southern Cross Healthcare is a 'people business'.
Our hospital and National Support Office teams increasingly work closely with others across the wider Southern Cross Healthcare network; harnessing the collective expertise to support the best health outcomes for our patients.
Our people
At Southern Cross Healthcare our purpose to advance the health and wellbeing of New Zealanders starts with having a team of highly engaged and motivated employees who are passionate about making a difference.
Our executive leadership team
Our Executive Leadership Team leads from the front; harnessing their experience across healthcare and business to deliver to our purpose of advancing the health and wellbeing of New Zealanders.
Reflecting Aotearoa
Southern Cross Healthcare is committed at working to develop a culturally safe environment that values manaakitanga and embraces diversity. We aim to be an organisation that is inclusive and reflects the diversity of Aotearoa New Zealand. This commitment is part of our core responsible business practices, which include a strong alignment with Te Tiriti o Waitangi, te ao Māori, and supporting health equity.
Southern Cross is with New Zealanders to support healthier lives and thriving communities
The Southern Cross branded businesses are a range of insurance and health-related businesses comprising Southern Cross Healthcare, Southern Cross Health Society, Southern Cross Pet Insurance, and Southern Cross Travel Insurance.
While operating independently of each other, we are united by a common brand, a for-purpose ethos, and we pledge to stand alongside our people and communities. We’re champions for improving intergenerational health and wellbeing and creating a flourishing future for Aotearoa New Zealand.
Our latest Community Impact Report highlights the positive ways that Southern Cross contributed to communities in 2023.
Read the Southern Cross 2023 Community Impact Report >
Pause Breathe Smile
Southern Cross is proud to partner with the Pause Breathe Smile Trust and the Mental Health Foundation to make the locally designed and internationally recognised schools’ mindfulness programme freely available to all school children aged five to 12. Pause Breathe Smile equips tamariki with tools to manage the ups and downs of life and set them up for a healthy future.
Round the Bays
Our aspiration of supporting healthier years for more New Zealanders is the driving force behind Southern Cross becoming naming rights sponsor of the iconic Round the Bays events. We are proud to continue the legacy of these celebrated events which bring our communities together. In 2025, over 43,000 participants took to the streets in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch.
Sustainability
As a leader in healthcare, we strive to make informed decisions about how we embed, integrate, and take into account the community and environment.
With national influence, we know we can positively contribute to climate change by reducing our carbon emissions and working with others to meet our commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Our waste reduction highlights in 2023 include:
- Over 140,000 PVC IV bags collected for recycling by our network of wholly owned hospitals.
- Over 107,000kg of paper, plastic, metal, and cardboard were diverted from landfill.
- Over 30,000 reprocessed single-use devices (such as hover matts, DVT sleeves and blood pressure eco cuffs) saved from being sent to landfill.
Our history and heritage
The history of Southern Cross Healthcare spans more than 40 years. Our origins in the 1960’s were driven by the need for private hospitals following the introduction of health insurance in New Zealand. In 2020 we changed our name from Southern Cross Hospitals to Southern Cross Healthcare to reflect our broader scope of services we now provide to support the health and wellbeing of New Zealanders.