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 .
How many FTEs in total are there in your obstetrics and gynaecology department, and how many roles are vacant?
Please state this by speciality (gynaecologist, nurse, etc)
How many women/people are currently waiting for a gynaecology appointment?
Please state how many have been waiting more than four months, and how many have been waiting for more than a year. How many have seen a specialist, and how many have not been seen at all?
If your hospital prioritises these cases (urgent, semi-urgent, routine etc) please state these categories, and how many women are waiting in each. Please also give an example/list of how each category is defined (not for every patient, just the types of health issues that would fall into those in general)
What is the average wait time, and what is the shortest? Please state the longest five wait times and what they are waiting for (symptoms or issue, eg. bleeding or cancer surgery)
Please outline what your DHB is doing to care for these women or speed up their treatment, including providing copies of any action plans developed.