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 .

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora Waitaha Canterbury Pānui Monday 19 May 2025

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Monday 19 May 2025Waitaha Canterbury Pānui2 minutes to read

In this edition of Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora Waitaha Canterbury Pānui

In this week’s issue of the Pānui, we catch up with a team of Speech Language Therapists and Physiotherapists in Older Persons Health and Rehabilitation Community Services who are supporting people with Parkinson’s Disease to maintain their independence and confidence.

Last week we celebrated International Nurses Day on Monday 12 May – Florence Nightingale’s birthday. As part of the celebrations, the second Nursing Trust Fund Awards were held in Christchurch, showcasing some of the incredible nurses across Waitaha Canterbury and Te Tai o Poutini West Coast. The awards were presented in recognition of clinical excellence in practice with one award for each campus.  

May is National Stroke Awareness month. Christchurch Hospital staff are showing their support for people who have had strokes and their whānau by  taking up Stroke Aotearoa’s ‘Road to Recovery challenge.’ 

Brenda Cruz, Graphic Designer in the Medical Illustration team, is featured in this week’s One minute with…

Emeritus Professor Eric Espiner has written a book, ‘A Physician’s Journey’, with the wisdom and insights borne of more than 90 years of life and almost 70 years as both clinician and researcher. Eric will be familiar to many of you – both as a former Christchurch Hospital and The Princess Margaret Hospital colleague in cardiac endocrinology, and as a colleague at the University of Otago, Christchurch, specifically the Christchurch Heart Institute.  The book is being launched on 29 May 2025 at the University of Canterbury Bookshop. 

You can read the Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora Waitaha Canterbury Pānui online.

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