NZ owned and family run
Driven by care. More than a delivery.
When a sample is late, a clinic loses a results window. When a temperature breach goes unreported, a vaccine is wasted. When a surgical bin doesn’t arrive, a theatre stops.
Most of what we deliver is medical. For 37 years, as a New Zealand owned, family run business, we have built our logistics and technology for more care and accuracy, because the clients we work for can’t afford “near enough”.
WHY HOSPITALS CHOOSE US
We're not the biggest network. We're the one that cares the most.
Same faces, year after year.
Long-tenure drivers and dispatchers who know your team, your loading docks, your protocols.
Medical Courier Services.
Drivers who know the hospitals and clinics we serve. Right drop-off, first time, every time.
Cold Chain end to end.
Temperature-controlled, continuously monitored. Vaccines, pathology, blood products, pharma.
Driven by care. More than a delivery.
Last month, a hospital booking came through at 5:30pm for a surgical bin to be in Palmerston North by 8:40am. The job was created. The flight wasn’t booked.
Our after-hours dispatcher caught it. Called the on-call courier. Found the next flight. Arranged evening pickup. No drama. Just the work being done by someone who treated it like it mattered.
Drivers who know the hospitals
Our regular medical drivers know the hospitals and clinics they deliver to: the loading docks, ward layouts, after-hours access points and security protocols.
They don’t waste time asking where to go. They go.
The fleet that medical work demands.
Temperature-controlled vehicles dedicated to medical work. Cold chain monitoring throughout the journey, not just at pickup and drop-off. Logged, tracked, visible to you in real time.
Pharmaceutical, vaccine, pathology, blood product, surgical equipment. Cleaned to medical standards between jobs.
Leading the way as your trusted
partner in healthcare
Our reputation in the healthcare sector speaks for itself. Trusted partnerships built over decades with healthcare manufacturers, clinics, hospitals, and labs.
When something goes wrong, the job is owned until it is sorted. When it has to get there, we get it there.
Can you provide regular pathology sample pickups from clinics and medical centres?
Yes. Scheduled pathology courier runs are a core part of our medical work. Daily, twice-daily, or whatever cadence suits your clinic or medical centre. You’ll get the same drivers each time, who’ll learn your team and your routine. We currently run regular pathology sample pickup routes for clinics across Auckland and beyond. Most of our clinic accounts have been running for years.
Do you offer urgent same-day medical delivery in Auckland and nationwide?
Yes. Same-day medical delivery across Auckland, with on-call drivers for after-hours emergencies. Nationwide medical courier services for inter-hospital transfers, time-critical pharmaceutical deliveries, and urgent specimen transport. Our dispatcher will tell you on the phone whether we can meet your timeframe. If we can, we go. If we can’t, we’ll be straight with you about it.
Can you carry temperature-sensitive medical items like vaccines, pathology samples, or blood products?
Yes. Our medical courier fleet includes temperature-controlled vehicles dedicated to medical work. Continuous cold chain monitoring from pickup to drop-off, with the data logged and visible to you in real time. Vaccines, pathology samples, blood products, and pharmaceutical deliveries are core to what we do. We treat each according to its handling requirements.
How do you track medical and healthcare deliveries in real time?
Live tracking on every medical delivery, nationwide. Your team sees the driver’s location from pickup through to delivery on a map. Notifications at pickup, en route, and on delivery. Photo proof of delivery sent automatically. Cold chain temperature data logged and reported with every job. If anything looks off, we’ll know about it before you do.
What’s the difference between Urgent Couriers and the bigger NZ courier networks for medical work?
Different shapes for different jobs. The bigger NZ courier networks move millions of parcels through automated hubs. That works for general freight. Medical courier work is different. We’ve built our service around the deliveries that count, with dedicated hospital-trained drivers, real cold chain monitoring, and 24/7 after-hours coverage that’s actually staffed. Most of our medical clients have used the bigger networks at some point. They’ve come to us because they wanted a different relationship with the delivery.
What’s the best courier for shipping medical samples in NZ?
Choose a courier that specialises in medical work. Urgent Couriers has decades of hospital and healthcare logistics experience, temperature-controlled vehicles, and dangerous goods licensed couriers in Auckland who can carry biological samples.
Talk to us about your medical work.
whether we’re the right fit.
Driven by care. More than a delivery.
Live tracking
Every delivery, tracked live.
Live tracking on every job, nationwide.
Your clients see exactly where their delivery is, without calling you.
Not just "dispatched" it's live on a map from pickup to door.
Know the moment something needs attention, before your client does.
Photo confirmation sent automatically, no chasing required.
