Northland District Health Board has partnered with Clanwilliam Health to build an integration into Whangarei Hospital's clinical platform to enable electronic referrals to be sent between hospital departments and out to private specialists and community providers.

GPs have been electronically referring into hospitals in the region since 2013 using Clanwilliam Health (formerly HealthLink) technology but referrals between hospital departments have remained paper-based until the beginning of this year.