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 .
All correspondence, including by text messages and email external and internal and involving the people leaving themselves, between executives relating to Canterbury District Health Board’s deficit from January 1, 2020 to date.
All correspondence relating to resignations of executives, including by text messages and email external and internal and involving the people leaving themselves, between executives from January 1, 2020 to date.
The minutes from Canterbury DHB board meeting on Thursday August 20.
The minutes from Canterbury DHB emergency meeting on Wednesday August 12.
The minutes from Canterbury DHB emergency meeting on Tuesday August 4.
The minutes from Canterbury DHB Hospital Advisory Committee (HAC) meeting on Monday August 3.
For each of the seven departing executives (David Meates, Michael Frampton, Mary Gordon, Carolyn Gullery, Dr Sue Nightingale, Stella Ward and Justine White) please provide any correspondence between them and CEO David Meates or them and any CDHB board member (including chair Sir John Hansen) sent in the two week period before each of their respective resignation dates.
Please provide a copy of the resignation letters/notices for each of the seven departing senior executives.
Please provide the minutes and any other documents presented in the August 4 emergency board meeting.
Please provide a copy of the draft 2020-21 annual plan endorsed by the board during the August 20 board meeting.
Please provide any correspondence between CDHB management or the board and the Ministry of Health/Health Minister's office sent in August 2020.