VISITING HOSPITAL

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

Last updated:
31 October 2024

Some visitor restrictions for all Health New Zealand | 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 we encourage 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 are advised to not visit our facilities if they are unwell. We advise that you 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 encouraged to be worn at all sites. Masks will be provided if you don’t have one.
  • Please practice hand hygiene with provided alcohol-based hand rub/gel

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 a surgical mask as a minimum – please use surgical masks provided.

All of our Hospitals

Visiting hours for our hospitals have returned to pre COVID-19 hours.

All visitors are encouraged to wear a medical face mask.

Parents/caregivers can be with their child in hospital and visitors are now allowed, except for the Children’s Haematology and Oncology Day stay where visitor restrictions might apply.

Patients and visitors can also read the additional COVID-19 related visiting guidelines .

CDHB car parking costs and revenue

Response to official information request

I request the following information for each of the 2015/16, 2016/17, and 2017/18 financial years:

  1. The total revenue from patients and visitors paying to park their vehicles in any DHB parking space.
  2. Are any parking spaces provided to employees? If so, what is the total economic value of the parks?
  3. The total revenue collected from employee parking spaces.
  4. The total number of DHB parking spaces.
  5. The total revenue generated from fines and infringement fees as a result of staff, patients, and visitors parking their vehicles improperly.
  6. The total number of fines and infringement notices issued. Please also disclose the number of fines and infringement notices that were waived.
  7. The total cost of the DHBs parking enforcement system. Please ensure to include any payments or wages made to contractors or staff to patrol the DHB parking spaces.
  8. The current hourly charge for a user to park a vehicle in any DHB parking space. If parking is charged at a time interval other than hourly, please disclose the relevant interval(s) and charge(s).
  9. A list of any parking concession charges or exemptions available to patients or visitors.

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