VISITING HOSPITAL

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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

Capacity

29 documents.

Operating theatre revenue and capacity

The impact on revenue for a hospital/DHB that is caused by an operating theatre being closed for a period of time. Can you please provide the average revenue that an operating theatre brings in per year? If that is too difficult, can you please provide the total operating theatre revenue for CDHB and the total amount of operating rooms?

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Aged care, number of hospital beds available

  • Since March 2020 have you had to reduce the number of beds you can offer for aged residential care?
  • How many beds did you offer in March 2020, and how many do you offer now?
  • If so, what has caused the DHB to reduce the number of age residential care beds available?
  • Have you had to reduce the number of general hospital beds available since March 2020?
  • If so, what has caused the DHB to reduce the number of general beds available?
  • How many general hospital beds were available in your catchment area in March 2020, and how many general hospital beds are available now?

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ICU capacity

What investment in the increased number of ICU beds by region and hospital, have been delivered, from 01 October 2019 to the date of your issuing the data.

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Intensive Care Unit

  1. How many intensive care unit (ICU) beds are available at Canterbury DHB that meet the staffing requirements outlined in the College of Intensive Care Medicine (CICM) minimum standards for Level I, II, III and Paediatric ICUs? See: https://www.cicm.org.au/CICM_Media/CICMSite/Files/Professional/IC-1-Minimum-Standards-for-Intensive-Care-Units.pdf
  2. What is the DHB’s current Clinical Priority Assessment Criteria (CPAC) threshold for each speciality?
  3. What were the CPAC thresholds over the previous 5 years and how many patients were declined treatment (FSA or surgery) due to capacity of the service to deliver?

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Population based funding 2019-2020

The Canterbury DHB Annual Report 2019/2020, at page 48, disclosed Ministry of Health population-based funding for the year ended 30 June 2020 of $1,565,331,000 (2019: $1,463,233,000).

    1. With respect to the 2020 funding, which I presume is paid in advance to the CDHB, with accounting adjustments to match the revenue to the financial year, can you please advise the amounts received and when they were received in relation to the FY2020 year, and the accounting adjustments which resulted in the reported figure of $1,565,331,000.
    2. In relation to the FY2020 funding, and each tranche which I presume is paid on a regular basis to the CDHB, what information does the MOH provide to the CDHB regarding how those funds were calculated in accordance with the population-based funding formula?
    3. Alternatively, it may be the CDHB does not receive any advice about the PBFF at all and instead just receives tranches of funds as the year progresses. Am I right in that assumption?
    4. May I also ask if you have been advised of any reviews of the PBFF subsequent to the 2015 Technical Report?

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PPE COVID preparedness

Emergency Department RMO staffing, patient volumes and presentations

RMO FTE on ED runs 2016 and 2021, ED patient volumes last five years, ED presentations January and June 2021 by time band and day.

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Personal protective equipment (PPE) usage and disposal

How much PPE CDHB hospitals received and disposed of during the pandemic.

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Multiple Sclerosis related staffing, wait times and services

Neurologists/Nurses/Nurse specialists staffing numbers. Waiting times 2020/2021 Financial year FSAs, Outpatients, follow up, Outpatient MRI, Outpatient infusion clinic appointment.

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Health statistics about the population of Lyttelton

Health statistics and data on population of Lyttleton suburb

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Cardiology staffing, March 2021

Re Cardiology Dept 15-29 March 2021:

  • Number of echo staff,
  • hours worked;
  • numbers of cases completed per day and size of backlog;
  • period of time backlog has existed;
  • number of and period of staff absence for any reason including training, sickness, unfilled positions, acting up;
  • work allocation and prioritisation; triage system rules;
  • outpatient backlog size;
  • age and quality of equipment.

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TAVI surgery criteria

Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) procedure, surgery criteria, surgery availability.

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Population projections for Canterbury

The most recent population information provided to DHB by Statistics NZ, including any breakdowns by ethnicity, age, sex, deprivation index.

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Maternity cot capacity

Maternity - What are the additional costs associated with increasing cot capacity above budget? Cost of sending a woman away to give birth, including flights - over last five years. Comparing cost of sending a woman away to give birth and cost of increasing capacity, which one is cheapest?

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NICU capacity

RE capacity issues in NICU - any correspondence or reports from NICU clinical staff to the CDHB or senior management concerning capacity issues at NICU from 2020.

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First specialist assessments, emergency department presentations, and hospital capacity 2019-2020

For the period September 1 2019 to August 31 2020, a weekly breakdown of the following information:

  1. ED presentations
  2. Overall hospital capacity
  3. The overall number of referrals received for first specialist assessments for planned care, and the number of FSA that took place (clarified as Medical / surgical FSAs).

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Multiple Sclerosis – Neurology staffing numbers and waiting times

Multiple sclerosis - staffing numbers and waiting times - April 2019 - end of March 2020

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Canterbury DHB Long Term Investment Plan, July 2019 – June 2029

The Canterbury DHB Long Term Investment Plan outlines our investment approach to meeting anticipated demand on the Canterbury Health System over the next ten years.

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Preparations for the COVID-19 pandemic

Information relating to COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic preparations.

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COVID-19 Inventories Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) stockpiles and projected demand.

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COVID-19 Information

Department Performance Measure Results 2017-2019

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

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Total hospital floor space

An estimate of the floor space of Canterbury DHB hospitals.

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Mothers babies transferred outside CDHB

How often have expectant mothers and or newborn babies been transferred to DHBs outside Canterbury?

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Women transferred to give birth

How many women have been transferred to another city to give birth in the past six months

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Mental Health – Staffing, experience, vacancies, capacity in acute unit, times above capacity

Staffing in Acute Mental Health Units, years of experience, vacancies, capacity, times above capacity.

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Surgical Training and non training positions vacant as at 11 June 2018

Surgical and Surgical Subspecialties Registrar training positions vacancies...

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Population forecasts for Canterbury DHB area

Population forecasts for Canterbury DHB area. Reports on hospital beds for Christchurch Hospital.

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