Mrs Catriona Foster, of Waiheke Island, QSM for services to nursing
Catriona Foster has been a District Nurse and Senior Specialist Community Nurse for the Waiheke Health Trust since 1979. She has led and organised wound management clinics and managed case conferences. She is a founding Trustee of the Waiheke Hospice Trust, which provides home-based end-of-life and palliative care. The services enable individuals to remain in their own home by providing support services and supporting families to care for their loved ones at home. She has organised major fundraising events for the Trust. Mrs Foster has often worked additional unpaid hours due to staffing shortages to care for patients.