To get the best health and wellbeing for our communities in Otago and Southland, our mission is to empower and support general practices and other healthcare providers to deliver affordable and accessible care for our people, when and where they need it. We are not a general practice and are unable to provide health diagnostic advice on our social media platforms. If you have any health concerns,
consult your GP or contact Healthline for free at 0800 611 116. In an emergency, always call 111. From time to time, we may share content from other social media pages to share relevant information with our online community. We welcome everyone’s comments and engagement on these social media platforms and expect users who engage with us on these social media platforms to follow each social media platform’s community guidelines in addition to WellSouth’s social media community guidelines. We may use comments and messages submitted to our social media pages for reporting purposes in anonymous form. WellSouth Social Media Guidelines
These guidelines cover all official WellSouth social media channels including Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and LinkedIn.
- Remember to keep it social, kind and respectful
- Please consider what you share on social media platforms and be respectful.
- Think before you comment or publish content on our posts or anyone else’s comments on our social media platforms.
- Please stay on topic if you are engaging with our posts.
- Please do not share your personal/confidential information or the personal information of others on social media platforms. WellSouth reserves the right to:
- Decide what content is inappropriate
- Block users without notice from WellSouth’s social media communities who do not follow the guidelines.
- Hide or delete comments that violate any of the WellSouth’s social media
We may delete posts that contains:
- discrimination and harassment targeted at an individual based on colour, race, ethnic or national origins, religion, gender, sexual orientation or disability.
- any form of hate speech, including but not limited to racist, sexist, homophobic or ableist hate speech
- nudity, pornography or child abuse
- excessive violence
- offensive language, abuse or threats
- potential defamatory statements, including false allegations.
- content that is illegal, discussion or instruction of illegal activities, or advocates illegal activities.
- misinformation, disinformation, or malinformation.
- confidential and sensitive personal facts about an individual, including health information.
- unrelated topics discussed on our social media platforms
- spam or advertising, including posts that include links and repeated comments
