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KMC will be CLOSED on Saturday April 25th and Monday April 27th in observance of ANZAC Day.

If you require medical care, Practice Plus, https://practiceplus.nz/can provide a phone or video consultation with a Doctor between 8am-8pm on these days.

Wellington After Hours Medical Centre at 17 Adelaide Road is open everyday 8am-9pm.

Wellington Hospital Emergency Department is an option for emergency care. (These are both walk-in only services and patients will be seen in order of acute medical need.)

In an emergency always call 111.

KMC will close at 6pm on Thursday April 2nd. We are closed on Good Friday, April 3rd and Easter Monday, April 6th.

We will be open on Saturday April 4th from 9am -12pm

If you need urgent medical care while we are closed, then please attend either Wellington After Hours Medical Centre, 17 Adelaide Road, Newtown or Wellington Hospital Emergency Department.

Telehealth appointments are available 8am-8pm on public holidays via Practice Plus. https://practiceplus.nz/

The annual flu vaccine is avaliable from Wednesday April 1st. It is recommended for everyone over 6 months. Call us now on 04 920 4562 to book a vaccination appointment.

The cost of a vaccine is $42 if you do not qualify for a funded vaccine.

The vaccine is FREE for

People aged 65+

Pregnant People

Many people with underlying health conditions including those with mental illness or addiction.

From February 1st, some people with stable, long-term conditions will be eligible to get prescriptions that last up to 12 months for some medications .

A 12-month prescription will not be clinically appropriate for all people.

Prescribers will use their clinical judgement to decide what is clinically safe and appropriate for each individual.

Eligible people will be required to have a yearly in-person review of their condition and medications with their prescriber.

Pharmacies can still only dispense a maximum three month supply (six months for oral contraceptives) at a time, as they do currently. Repeats will need to be collected from the same pharmacy.

There is no change to the duration of supply for controlled drugs.

Dear Karori Medical Centre Patients

 We would like to update you on the cyber security incident that involved unauthorised access to some Manage My Health (MMH) data. Karori Medical Centre subscribes to MMH as a third-party patient portal system to integrate with our Practice Management System.

The data breach relates to the Health Documents function within MMH. We do not actively use this function as a practice to store any information, notes or results. Individuals however, may have chosen to store documents and records themselves under this function. Additionally, MMH advise that Hospital Discharge Documents from Northland Hospital and some specialist referral letters sent between 2017 and 2019 were contained in the Health Documents function that was illegally accessed.

We have been told that approximately 3.5% of our current patients are affected in this data breach. These patients will soon be contacted by MMH directly. Notified patients will be advised how they can access more information and support. This incident is being managed by Health New Zealand, The Office of the Privacy Commissioner and Manage My Health.

Manage My Health have a FAQ https://managemyhealth.co.nz/faqs-cyber-breach/ which gives more information. They can also be contacted at support@managemyhealth.co.nz

No data that Karori Medical Centre has received or holds directly is part of this incident. All consultation notes, results and messaging between patients and clinicians remains secure and confidential.

At this time Karori Medical Centre continues to use Manage My Health, we have been assured that the system has been deemed safe by both Health New Zealand and cybersecurity experts. It is the way that many of our patients access healthcare and interact with us.

We share our patients concerns as to how this occurred and are aware of the distress that an incident like this brings. We expect that affected patients will receive a notification from MMH as a next step in the coming days. We will continue to update our website with relevant information as we receive it.

 Kind Regards

Karori Medical Centre

As you will be aware Manage My Health (MMH) reported a breach of its security last week, which allowed unauthorised access and download of a number of documents from the ‘My Health Documents’ part of the application.

The MMH application has now been forensically reviewed by international experts, and we have had assurance the problem is fully contained and corrected. The application is safe to use at this time.

MMH is now finalising details of the practices and patients directly impacted by the breach of its system. Some of the documents accessed are historical and may impact patients/providers who no longer use the MMH portal.

Impacted practices will be notified directly by Manage My Health by close of business on 5 Jan 2026.

MMH is working with Health NZ and the Office of the Privacy Commissioner on the process for notification of individuals. Based on this advice, MMH will then begin individual notifications to impacted individuals as soon as possible.

An 0800 number will be set up to provide more information for anyone concerned about the breach. MMH continues to provide updates on its website at https://managemyhealth.co.nz/faqs-cyber-breach/

The latest statement from MMH can be found here: https://managemyhealth.co.nz/mmh-cyber-breach-update-3-january-2026/ which includes up to date information including the fixes and legal action being taken as well as FAQs.

We expect MMH and all other providers of health information systems to meet the highest standards around security, with patient safety and privacy a top priority.