Janice McNeil was born in the far north of Aotearoa New Zealand, however, has spent much of her life in Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa’s largest city.

After nursing graduation, she worked in Nephrology at Auckland City Hospital, then travelled and worked at Guys & St Thomas Hospital, London Bridge, London, at the dialysis unit. On coming back to Aotearoa she worked in a number of roles, including dialysis nurse, case manager and Charge Nurse Manager of a busy dependant and acute dialysis unit.

In 2010 she moved, along with her young family to Perth Australia, and worked in the Diaverum Dialysis Unit, Stirling.

On return to Aotearoa she came back to the Te Toka Tumai team and took up her current position, as Charge Nurse Manager for Home Dialysis Therapies. Janice has been integral in the process of building Te Toka Tumai’s second community dialysis and clinic facility and again with the first community home haemodialysis unit.

Janice’s role is based in the Home Dialysis Unit, encompassing Peritoneal Dialysis, Home Haemodialysis and Community based Home Haemodialysis. She is passionate about empowering patients to do a high-quality home or community-based dialysis treatment and enabling holiday dialysis.

Janice is married to Dwayne with 2 teenage children, and they live in rural Tāmaki Makaurauclose to the beautiful Manukau harbour.