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Order resources from the Community Health Information Centre
The Community Health Information Centre (CHIC) provides free health resources within the Te Mana Ora | Community and Public Health geographical area covering:
- Canterbury including Ashburton, Greater Christchurch, Selwyn, Waimakariri, Hurunui and Kaikoura Districts;
- South Canterbury including MacKenzie, Timaru and Waimate Districts;
- the West Coast including Buller, Grey and Westland Districts; and
- the Chatham Islands.
This page is the gateway to ordering health resources online, including pamphlets, booklets and posters.
You can order up to 100 copies of any resource online, unless specified otherwise or if quantities are limited.
- View the CHIC Stock List with all our current free resources available to order [815KB PDF].
Updated quarterly – latest version current until January 2024. - View the latest CHIC Newsletter highlighting new free resources, and those recently revised or no longer available.
- Download instructions on how to order CHIC resources online – updated November 2024 [748KB PDF].
- Use the NZ Post Address and Postcode Finder to check your postcode.
Find out more about online ordering and the delivery of your order.
Christmas/New Year closure of Community Health Information Centres
The Community Health Information Centres will be closed over the festive season.
Make sure you get your orders in to ensure deliver before Christmas and to cover resource needs over this period. Any orders received after the specified date will not be processed until the Centre reopens in 2025.
- Timaru – including Canterbury and Mid Canterbury: Last day for pre-Christmas orders is Tuesday 17th December 2024. Closed from Friday 20th December 2024 and re-opens on Monday 13th January 2025.
- Greymouth: Last day for pre-Christmas orders is Tuesday 17th December 2024. Closed from Friday 20th December 2024 and re-opens on Monday 13th January 2025.
Permanent closure of Christchurch Community Health Information Centre
The Resource Coordinator in Christchurch has accepted early retirement redundancy effective from 1st November 2024.
So the Christchurch CHIC will be closing down and will stop processing resource orders. Thank you for your custom and your orders over the many years we have been operating.
Future orders for Government health education resources within Canterbury, Mid Canterbury will be provided from the South Canterbury CHIC.
The Timaru and Greymouth Community Health Information Centres will continue to operate.
Other ways you can order resources
You can also order resources from CHIC via mail or email. Ordering via fax is no longer available.
- Download the CHIC Order Form if you are ordering by mail or email, or for larger quantities of resources (for example more than 100 copies of a resource).
Updated in June 2023 to be a fill-able PDF [99KB].
You can visit the centres in Timaru and Greymouth to view or order resources.
Contact your local CHIC Office for more information:
CANTERBURY, MID CANTERBURY AND SOUTH CANTERBURY (Timaru)
Ph +64 3 687 2600
WEST COAST (Greymouth)
Ph +64 3 768 1160
Ordering resources from outside our region
Some resources produced by Community and Public Health are available to those outside our coverage area, but you will need to pay for these items, including a postage charge.
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