Dr Fiona Bolden

Fiona is the Chair of Hauora Taiwhenua Rural Health Network. Fiona has been a rural GP since 1996 and is currently based in the Coromandel, working in Whangamatā. She comes from Devon (UK) and trained at Bristol University, doing her general practice training in rural UK. In 2002 she emigrated to Aotearoa/New Zealand with her young family. Initially she was in Kawhia, a small settlement on the West Coast of the North Island and then she owned a practice in Whaingaroa/Raglan for 17 years.

She served on the NZRGPN (New Zealand Rural General Practice Network) Committee from 2010 and as Chair from 2019 until 2022 when the network formed one of the founding bodies for Hauora Taiwhenua (The Rural Health Network). She has been Chair of Hauora Taiwhenua since its inception.

Her focus is firmly on rural primary care, specifically general practice.

She would like to see equity in health outcomes for all people and sees relationships with rural communities as being a vital part of that.