VISITING HOSPITAL

All hospital visitors are recommended to wear a medical face mask. Expand this message for information about visiting hospital.

Last updated:
13 March 2023

Some visitor restrictions for all Te Whatu Ora Waitaha Canterbury hospitals and health facilities remain in place, but we have relaxed others.

There is still a heightened risk to vulnerable people in hospital and so we recommend all people wear a mask when visiting any of our facilities and follow other advice designed to keep patients, staff and  visitors safe.

To keep everybody safe:

  • Visitors or support people must not visit our facilities if they are unwell. Do not visit if you have recently tested positive for COVID-19 and haven’t completed your isolation period.
  • Patients may have more than one visitor, except in some situations such as multi-bed rooms where it can cause overcrowding.
  • Surgical/medical masks are recommended to be worn at all sites. Masks will be provided if you don’t have one.
  • For Specialist Mental Health Services everyone is strongly encouraged to wear a face mask in all inpatient areas and areas where consumers are receiving care (i.e. community appointments, home-visits, transporting people). Discretion may be applied in cases where masks impair your ability to communicate effectively.
  • Visitors must not eat or drink in multibed rooms because of the increased risk when multiple people remove their face mask in the same space.
  • Hand sanitiser is available and must be used.

Thank you in advance for your patience and understanding as our staff work hard to protect and care for some of the most vulnerable in our community.

Visiting patients with COVID-19

  • People can visit patients who have COVID-19 but they must wear an N95 mask – this will be provided if you don’t have one.
  • Other methods of communication will be facilitated e.g. phone, Facetime, Zoom, WhatsApp etc where visits aren’t possible.

All of our Hospitals

Visiting hours for our hospitals have returned to pre COVID-19 hours with the exception of Christchurch Women’s Hospital.

All visitors are recommended to wear a medical face mask.

Parents/caregivers are able to be with their child in hospital and visitors are now allowed, except for the Children’s Haematology and Oncology Day stay where just one parent/caregiver is able to attend their appointment with their child. Exceptions by special arrangement only.

Patients and visitors should also read the additional more detailed visiting guidelines for each specific hospital.

More COVID-19 information

Document Library

Key plans and reports are listed at the top of the document library homepage, other recent documents are listed by date under these documents. Please note: Many publications in our document library are now historic district health board documents, rather than current information. You can find up-to-date national publications, including responses to OIA requests on the Te Whatu Ora national website

Use the Search menu (left) to apply a filter and list documents. Each document has a document type, a summary, and topics and tags associated with it. 

919 documents for "Official Information Act Response".

Costs of the White Island incident

White Island incident: Direct costs broken down by total figure; breakdown of where the costs were lost from i.e. cancelling elective surgeries, having to reschedule outpatient appointments, equipment needed, additional staffing hours.

Tags

More informationDownload pdf (400KB)

Funding for catering services vs youth sexual health services

Annual spend on lunches provided for multi disciplinary team lunchtime meetings for medical and other staff. How much DHB spends over whole organisation? Was cutting that budget considered before cutting the funding for youth sexual health consultations in primary care, in order to cut costs at the DHB?

Tags

More informationDownload pdf (400KB)

Ophthalmology Services

Ophthalmology wait list, breakdown of how long these patients have been waiting. 

Tags

More informationDownload pdf (400KB)

Sexual harassment complaints

Information regarding sexual harassment complaints, internal and external investigations.

Tags

More informationDownload pdf (300KB)

Capital expenditure 2009 – 2019

List and details of capital expenditure for the last ten years.

Tags

More informationDownload pdf (300KB)

Christchurch Girls High leavers dinner, December 2019

The number of attendees who reported symptoms following the 3 December 2019 Christchurch Girls High leavers dinner, the range and numbers of symptoms reporter. And confirmed and suspected cases of Clostridium Perfringens.

Tags

More informationDownload pdf (400KB)

Gender reassignment hormone therapy

Gender reassignment hormone therapy - number referred, treated, ages, transitioning from male to female, female to male?

Tags

More informationDownload pdf (400KB)

Cost of outsourced surgery June 2018 – January 2020

Cost of outsourcing surgery to private theatres from June 2018 to January 2020.

Tags

More informationDownload pdf (500KB)

Number of orderlies, ethnicity, salaries, languages spoken.

Number of orderlies, ethnicity, salaries, languages spoken.

Tags

More informationDownload pdf (400KB)

Asbestos Management Plans

All Asbestos Management Plans prepared under Regulation 13(2) of the Health and Safety at Work (Asbestos) Regulations 2016.

Tags

More informationDownload pdf (500KB)

Population nutrition promotion budget

An estimate of your DHB budget for population nutrition promotion over last three years.

Tags

More informationDownload pdf (300KB)

Future plans for former Christchurch Women’s Hospital site on Colombo Street, Christchurch

Future plans for vacant land i.e. old Womens Hospital Colombo street. Is this land to be sold, when? If not sold what are the plans?

Tags

More informationDownload pdf (400KB)

Grommets, Hips, Knees, Cervical Colposcopy, Colonoscopies, Cataracts, CABG surgery

10249-10254 combined response: Grommets, Hips and Knees, Cervical Colposcopy, Colonoscopies, Cataracts, Coronary artery bypass graft (CABG).

Tags

More informationDownload pdf (400KB)

Cost of ECT (electroconvulsive therapy)

Cost of ECT (electroconvulsive therapy) for past five years.

Tags

More informationDownload pdf (400KB)

Car parking at Christchurch Hospital

Correspondence between CDHB and Minister, MoH between Aug 2019 and Feb 2020 re provision of car parking at Christchurch Hospital.

Tags

More informationDownload pdf (400KB)

Waitlist for for people accessing counselling

Current waitlist for people accessing counselling through a DHB funded primary health care or community provider i.e. Brief Intervention Counselling. Broken down into men, women, age.

Tags

More informationDownload pdf (300KB)

Mental Health Patients: AWOL, suicide, adverse events

How many patients detained under the Mental Health Act: AWOL, suicide, disappeared, suffered an adverse event etc.

Tags

More informationDownload pdf (500KB)

Incidences of bullying and harassment shared with NZNO in 2018/19

Reports, meetings, agendas and letters shared between the DHB and NZNO on bullying and harassment in the 2018 / 2019 financial year.

Tags

More informationDownload pdf (4MB)

Enduring Power of Attorney

What processes and protocols have been put in place to ensure the validity of an enduring power of attorney before respecting their decision making authority?

Tags

More informationDownload pdf (1MB)

Waitlist for detox addiction services

Number of people who were put on a waitlist to access detox and rehab addiction services each year over past four years.

Tags

More informationDownload pdf (500KB)

Smokefree policies

Copies of smoke-free policies between the years 2000 - 2019.

Tags

More informationDownload pdf (800KB)

Measles WHO report

Why so few discarded cases in the WHO report when the vast majority of PCR test are negative.

Tags

More informationDownload pdf (400MB)

People ineligible received healthcare post March 15th 2019 attack

Information about people who were ineligible for public healthcare and who were treated in aftermath of March 15 attacks. 

Tags

More informationDownload pdf (250KB)

Models of care Hillmorton Acute ward

Models of care for Hillmorton acute Mental Health ward

Tags

More informationDownload pdf (300KB)

Phone calls mental health crisis team

Number of phone calls to the mental health crisis team over past five years.

Tags

More informationDownload pdf (400KB)

Legal costs incurred 2018-2019

Legal costs for 2018/2019 incurred by Canterbury DHB and West Coast DHB

Tags

More informationDownload pdf (300KB)

Skin cancer

Skin cancer prevention funding and expenditure in the last 10 years.

Tags

More informationDownload pdf (400KB)

Atrial fibrillation / heart condition tests and costs

The number of total tests and total cost of Holter monitoring type services for atrial fibrillation and other heart conditions for the latest year available?

Tags

More informationDownload pdf (300KB)

Bariatric surgery

What are prerequisites for bariatric surgery? Number of surgeries 2015-2019? Eligibility for surgery? Wait list? Special requirements for those in prison to meet eligibility? Is there special funding for Maori?

Tags

More informationDownload pdf (300KB)

Hillmorton Hospital new facilities concept

Concept design drawings of any kind showing Hillmorton new facilities. Reports/documents produced as part of the preliminary design process. Correspondence from Clinical Leaders Group to DHB management regarding the new facilities.

Tags

More informationDownload pdf (3MB)

Lamotrigine brand change

Information regarding Lamotrigine brand change.

Tags

More informationDownload pdf (450KB)

Department Performance Measure Results 2017-2019

The performance measure results of each department from September 2017 to September 2019 e.g. patient flow indicators.

Tags

More informationDownload pdf (500KB)

Christchurch drinking water

RE use of sodium hypochlorite in Christchurch drinking water. What part of the system gets checked for chloroform or THMs?

Tags

More informationDownload pdf (450KB)

Chronic pain services

Request for the CDHB protocol for diagnosing Aldosteronism and a copy of the interpretation of the results of the test.

Tags

More informationDownload pdf (400KB)

Total hospital floor space

An estimate of the floor space of Canterbury DHB hospitals.

Tags

More informationDownload pdf (700KB)

Clinical Leaders Group correspondence regarding the redevelopment of Christchurch Hospital Campus

All correspondence from Clinical Leaders Group, or any correspondence from individual clinicians on behalf of the group, to CDHB management regarding the redevelopment of the Christchurch Hospital campus and the two business cases in 2019 up to the submission of the business cases.

Tags

More informationDownload pdf (14MB)

Showing 561-600 of 919 results, page 15 of 23.

Page last updated: 24 January 2024

Is this page useful?