Insurance company description
One of NZ's largest not-for-profit
organisations
Southern Cross Healthcare is one of New Zealand’s best
known and most trusted brands, offering a broad range of
health-related services to hundreds of thousands of New
Zealanders. This page is your gateway to the news,
performance, governance and history of Southern Cross
Healthcare.
The Southern Cross Healthcare Group operates under two
distinct entities - Southern Cross Medical Care Society
and Southern Cross Health Trust.
Southern Cross Medical Care Society
Southern Cross Health Insurance
Activa Health Limited, which offers the activa Health
Management Account - a new way for customers to get more
out of the money they spend on health.
Southern Cross Health Services Limited, incorporating
Care Advantage, a claims and rehabilitation management
company in the workplace accident insurance sector
Southern Cross Health Trust
Southern Cross Hospitals – ten wholly owned hospitals
and four joint venture hospitals
Southern Cross Benefits Limited, trading as Southern
Cross Travel Insurance
The workings of the Medical Care Society
Southern Cross Medical Care Society is a not-for-profit
Friendly Society, operated for the benefit of its
members. Many of those members take an active interest
in how the Society is run, so we have created a
Governance section on this web site to help keep members
up to date. It includes information relating to Annual
General Meetings, the Society’s Rules, Directors’
profiles and news from the Board.
Our early history
“In 1960, a small group of prominent Auckland
professional men held a series of meetings…hatching a
proposal to introduce to New Zealand something many at
the time thought alien to our welfare state legacy –
health insurance….Little did they know [the
not-for-profit health care organisation] would become
arguably the largest consumer co-operative New Zealand
has ever seen – the Southern Cross Medical Care
Society.” Sunday Star Times, 1997.
This excerpt provides a hint to the fascinating early
history of Southern Cross, which featured a medical and
political who’s who of the 1950s and 60s. Read more
about Southern Cross’s Early History in excerpts from
The Private Prescription, a history of Southern Cross’
first 40 years by a former Southern Cross Chief
Executive, Peter A. Smith. |
