​Vale Robert Bartley, QSM
​It is with great sadness that we advise our community that our founder Robert Bartley QSM passed away recently aged 69, following a long battle with cancer. Rob, Ann, and family established the Robert Bartley Foundation to ensure Rob’s legacy of giving back to his local community continues.

our vision
​to deliver quality local
​health experiences and make
healthcare more accessible.

our purpose
to provide local health services
to the greater Whanganui region
​to improve health outcomes.

The Robert Bartley Foundation was established in 2020 by the Bartley family.  The Foundation's namesake, Robert Bartley QSM, was a well known and much loved business man who championed sport, business, and health services in the Whanganui region. 

The Foundation's purpose is to make healthcare more accessible, by taking the services to the greater Whanganui area including Marton, Bulls, Taihape, Waiouru, Ohakune and Raetihi. 

If you wish to make a donation to the Foundation please do so through the Markhams Wanganui Ltd Trust Account 06-0793-0009610-02. Put your name and RBF as the reference and thank you.

Robert Bartley QSM

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The Health Bus is the Foundation's first project.  A collaboration with the Whanganui District Health Board, it will - once outfitted - deliver quality health services to the community, including immunisations, health checks, screening programmes, and more.  The Foundation aims to have this mobile clinic on the road later this year to enable us to provide regional support for the COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout.

The Whanganui Chronicle featured a story on the bus here