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. 

1314 documents.

Return of electoral donations and expenses for Gray Crawford

Return of electoral donations and expenses for Canterbury District Health Board Election held on 12 October 2019.

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Return of electoral donations and expenses for Catherine Chu

Return of electoral donations and expenses for Canterbury District Health Board Election held on 12 October 2019.

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Return of electoral donations and expenses for Sally-Anne Buck

Return of electoral donations and expenses for Canterbury District Health Board Election held on 12 October 2019.

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Return of electoral donations and expenses for Geoff Booth

Return of electoral donations and expenses for Canterbury District Health Board Election held on 12 October 2019.

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Return of electoral donations and expenses for Peter Ballantyne

Return of electoral donations and expenses for Canterbury District Health Board Election held on 12 October 2019.

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Car parking at Christchurch Hospital

Any correspondence between March and October 2019 regarding Christchurch Hospital car parking. Any reports received or produced by the working group on parking, including traffic modelling.

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MKWCT Board Miniti – 17 December 2019

Manawhenua Ki Waitaha (MKWCT) Board Meeting Minutes.

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Maternity Quality and Safety Programme (MQSP) Annual Report 2018/19

The Maternity Quality and Safety Programme (MQSP) Annual Report is published each year and submitted to the Ministry of Health.

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Canterbury DHB Board Meeting Agenda – 17 December 2019

The Canterbury DHB Board meet approximately every month. Board agenda papers are usually published two days before a board meeting.

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Measles popup clinics

Information regarding Measles pop up clinics held since outbreak began.

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Culturally appropriate Asian health services

What training do all front-line staff (those who deal directly with patients, across all sectors of health) have for providing culturally appropriate services to people from the Asian community?

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Guidelines to establish clinical threshold elective surgery

Guidelines information used to establish the clinical threshold for each of the five elective surgeries. Knee, hip, hernia, colonoscopy and laparoscopic cholecystectomy.

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Canterbury Maternity Strategy 2019

The Canterbury Maternity Strategy, also known as the Canterbury Maternity System Strategic Framework 2019-2024 puts māmā and pēpi at the centre of what we do and what we want to achieve.

The vision statement within the strategy states that Canterbury maternity services provide for the maternity needs of all māmā and whānau as and when needed during their maternity journey in order to enable the best start to life for all pēpi and the ongoing wellbeing of mothers. The strategy also contains statements about our values and provides details about the framework to be used by Canterbury maternity services.

 

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Canterbury DHB Statement of Intent 2019/2023

The Canterbury DHB's Statement of Intent sets out the key financial and non-financial measures and targets that the Canterbury health system aims to achieve.

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Hospital Advisory Committee (HAC) Meeting Agenda – 5 December 2019

The Hospital Advisory Committee (HAC) meets approximately every 3 months.

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The immunisation status of DHB staff

The immunisation status of medical/DHB staff mentioned as having contracted measles. How many of these and wider cases of DHB staff were vaccinated? How many shots did they receive? How close after the vaccines did they contract the measles?

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Information about Measles outbreak email notifications to DHB CEO’s

Measles - Email notification to DHB CEO notifying them of measles outbreak 28/2/2019

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Bullying, harassment and complaints laid by staff over the past five years

Bullying, harassment or other complaints laid by staff over the past five years.

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Staff and patients with vaccine preventable diseases

How many DHB health workers have contracted vaccine preventable illnesses such as measles, whooping cough or flue while employed by DHB in last decade? Had these workers been vaccinated? How many patients, if any, have contracted vaccine preventable illnesse3s from Health workers or other patients while in hospital in past decade?

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Information about SMHS Regional mental health services

South Island regional specialist mental health services: A list of services? Total annual usage for each? Total annual budget? Usage by people resident Southern DHB? Info re non-inpatient service offered

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Number of assaults recorded in the past five years

The total number of assaults recorded by the CDHB over the past five years.

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Hospital bed numbers

The total number of hospital beds from 2017 to 2019 at Canterbury DHB.

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The costs of Breast reconstruction

Breast Reconstruction: The budgeted cost of the clinical codes covering procedures for breast reconstruction: 4553002, 4553900,4554500, 4554501, 4554502

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Dialysis and chemotherapy patients

Over latest 12 month period. Number of patients treated for dialysis? Number treated with chemotherapy. How many patients have required stays longer than two days in hospital? Broken down by hospital if possible.

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Number of people waiting for aged home support

The number of persons on Needs Assessment Service Coordination (NASC) waiting list for aged home support.

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Vaccination rates among health workers

Any information the DHB holds about vaccination / immunisation rates for its health workers.

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Disability Steering Group (DSG) Meeting Minutes – 22 November 2019

The main points discussed at Disability Steering Group (DSG) meetings recorded as key messages in meeting minutes.

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Canterbury DHB Annual Report 2018/19

The Canterbury DHB Annual Report 2018/2019 allows us to report on the progress we have made over the year towards achieving the key objectives set out in our Statement of Intent.

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Canterbury DHB Serious Adverse Events Report 2018/19

A serious adverse event (SAE) is one which has resulted in significant additional treatment, major loss of function, is life threatening or has led to an unexpected death.

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MKWCT Board Miniti – 19 November 2019

Manawhenua Ki Waitaha (MKWCT) Board Meeting Minutes.

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Debt incurred by ineligible patients

Total amount of debt incurred in treating foreign, ineligible patients 2014/2015-2018/2019. Number of patients. Recovery of debt?

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Breast cancer, radiation therapy, and mepitel film

The number of women who received radiation therapy for the most recent full year. Number of women provided with fully funded Mepitel film. Number of women who were not recommended Mepitel film and who were given information about how to purchase from supplier.

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Measles and Vitamin A

What are the WHO Vitamin A dosing guidelines for patients hospitalised with measles? Number of patients treated with Vitamin A for measles. How much Vitamin A stock does DHB hold?

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Denotified measles

Re 13 cases of denotified measles. What was the time interval between vaccination and specimen connection/collection? Number of other such cases in last five years?

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Current wait time regarding prostate cancer treatment

Current waiting time for: Referral from a GP for a prostate cancer initial consultation; for a follow up appointment for a prostate biopsy; for a post biopsy appointment to discuss results and treatment options and for a radical prostatectomy following the post biopsy appointment for persons with a confirmed prostate cancer diagnosis?

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Information about colonoscopies since 2010-2011

Information regarding fibreoptic colonoscopies to Hepatic Flexure or to Caecum provided since 2010/2011.

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Canterbury DHB Board Meeting Agenda – 21 November 2019

The Canterbury DHB Board meet approximately every month. Board agenda papers are usually published two days before a board meeting.

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Canterbury Health System Quality Accounts 2019

WellNow Canterbury is our bi-annual community health magazine. We have combined this November 2019 edition with the Canterbury Health System’s Quality Accounts to provide a picture of how well our Health System is meeting Canterburys health needs.

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Mastectomies, Lumpectomies, Breast reconstruction surgeries

Number of mastectomies and lumpectomies undertaken in DHB hospitals and contracted out to private provider since 2015. Number of breast reconstruction procedures.

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