Claude for health and social services
Health and social service providers carry a heavy documentation load and hold sensitive information.
- Share of NZ employees
- 12%about 294,000 people, Feb 2025
- Highest local share
- 55%Kawakawa, Northland
- Highest region
- 17%Northland, 11,600 employees
Where we start
Health and social service providers carry a heavy documentation load and hold sensitive information. Claude can help with the non-clinical writing, carefully.
Policies and procedures
Draft and update policies, and check them against the standard or guideline you give it.
Plain-language information
Rewrite patient or client information at a readable level, and check that nothing clinical changed in the rewrite.
Reporting and funding applications
Assemble contract reports and funding applications from your own data and narrative.
Take care: The Health Information Privacy Code 2020 applies. Do not put identifiable health information into any AI tool unless your organisation has approved that tool and use.
Where the jobs are
Health and social services accounts for 12% of paid employees in New Zealand. These are the towns and regions where its share is highest. Towns need at least 400 employees to be ranked.
Towns with the highest share of jobs in health
| Town | Chart | Share | NZ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kawakawa | 55.4% | 12.0% | |
| Clyde | 47.6% | 12.0% | |
| Thames | 29.4% | 12.0% | |
| Oxford | 27.5% | 12.0% | |
| Waikanae | 25.7% | 12.0% | |
| Whangārei | 25.4% | 12.0% | |
| Snells Beach | 23.2% | 12.0% | |
| Kaitāia | 22.6% | 12.0% | |
| Hastings | 20.8% | 12.0% | |
| Riverton | 20.8% | 12.0% |
Share of paid employees at business locations in the town. The tick marks the national share.
Source: Stats NZ, Business Demography Statistics, February 2020 and 2025.
By region
| Region | Chart | Share | NZ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northland | 17.4% | 12.0% | |
| Nelson | 15.2% | 12.0% | |
| Manawatū-Whanganui | 14.0% | 12.0% | |
| Gisborne | 14.0% | 12.0% | |
| Bay of Plenty | 13.1% | 12.0% | |
| Waikato | 12.8% | 12.0% | |
| Taranaki | 12.7% | 12.0% | |
| Canterbury | 12.1% | 12.0% | |
| Wellington | 11.9% | 12.0% | |
| Hawke's Bay | 11.9% | 12.0% | |
| Otago | 11.5% | 12.0% | |
| West Coast | 11.3% | 12.0% | |
| Auckland | 11.1% | 12.0% | |
| Southland | 11.0% | 12.0% | |
| Marlborough | 9.4% | 12.0% | |
| Tasman | 7.6% | 12.0% |
Source: Stats NZ, Business Demography Statistics, February 2020 and 2025.
Courses
1Introductory
Claude foundations workshop
A hands-on start for everyone on the team: good prompts, Projects, files and artifacts, using your own work as the examples.
2Organisation
Claude team rollout
Moving from a few enthusiasts to a whole team: plan choice, Projects structure, usage guidelines, connectors and champions.
3Advanced
Claude Code and MCP for developers
For developers and technical teams: agentic coding with Claude Code, project memory, building MCP servers and the Claude API.
Other industries
Questions
Is Claude safe to use in health?
With the right plan and rules, yes for most tasks. The Health Information Privacy Code 2020 applies. Do not put identifiable health information into any AI tool unless your organisation has approved that tool and use.
Can training use our own health examples?
Yes. We ask for a few real, non-sensitive examples beforehand, or anonymised versions, and build the exercises around them.
Train your health team
- You tell us about the teamSize, where you are, the documents people work with, and what you would like to change.
- We suggest a course and formatBy email, with a few questions about the tasks and documents you want to train on.
- People practise on real workOn-site or remote. Everyone leaves with Claude set up for tasks they do every week.
- In person
- Remote
- Half-day workshop
- Full-day workshop
- Team rollout
Independent training by TheColab. Not affiliated with Anthropic.
Enquire
Tell us about your team. We reply by email with a suggested course and format.