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 .

Child health

Children’s inpatient wards have moved to Waipapa!

Ward 21 (now Ward B7) and Ward 22 (now Ward A7), PHDU, and CHOC have moved to new locations in the Waipapa building. All new locations are listed on the Christchurch Hospital page and can be viewed on a map of Waipapa.

Our new Children’s wards web pages are currently being updated and we will share them with you soon.

Some children’s health services provided by Canterbury DHB are listed below.

More information about child health services is available in the Child Health Division pages including all Child Health Departments and Units, helpful videos for children and parents going to hospital, Children’s Outpatients Department, Preparing for a child’s hospital stay, Information sheets and pamphlets for parents and children and Child Health visiting hours

14 health services.

A6 Child Haematology and Oncology Centre (CHOC)

CHOC is one of two specialist treatment centres for childhood cancer in New Zealand. We care for infants, children and adolescents with cancer, and their families/whanau.

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A7 Paediatric Medical Ward

You will find all Canterbury Child and Youth Healthcare services listed under Hospital Services and Community Services, you can also find information for children and their parents under patients and carers.

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Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) Cancer Service

The Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Service helps to improve outcomes for young people aged between 12 and 24 with cancer in New Zealand, by coordinating cancer care with  health professionals, and assisting patients and your families during and after treatment.

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Aotearoa Immunisation Register (AIR)

The Aotearoa Immunisation Register (AIR) (formerly known as the National Immunisation Register NIR) is a computerised information system that has been developed to hold immunisation details of New Zealand children.

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B7 Paediatric Surgical Ward

B7 is a 24 bed ward for children needing hospitalisation for surgery and for some children requiring medical management of conditions such as cystic fibrosis.

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Child & Youth Health

You will find all Canterbury Child and Youth Healthcare services listed under Hospital Services and Community Services, you can also find information for children and their parents under patients and carers.

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Child Development Service

The Child Development Service therapy team is based at Montreal House in Christchurch and includes Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, a Social Worker, Speech Language Therapist and a Dietitian.

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Child Integrated Care (CIC) Team

A service for children and young people between the ages of 0-12 years who have a confirmed or suspected moderate to severe mental health issue.

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High Care

Children’s High Care on Level 1 is a small 8 bed unit located alongside the ICU. Access to Children’s High Care is via the entrance to the Intensive Care Unit.

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Human Milkbank

Christchurch Women's Hospital's Neonatal Unit (NICU) opened New Zealand's first Human Pasteurised​ Donor Milk Bank in 2014. The Human Milk Bank is next to the Neonatal Unit on the 4th Floor, Christchurch Women's Hospital​.

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LinKIDS

LinKIDS helps connect families to health services in the Canterbury region.

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Neonatal Service

The Canterbury Neonatal Service provides special and intensive care for all babies born in the wider Canterbury region. This region extends to Timaru in the South, Greymouth in the West and Kaikoura in the North.

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Ngā Kākano

A specialist regional (South Island) treatment and assessment service for children and adolescents who have severe psychiatric, emotional, behavioural, or developmental disorders are assessed and/or treated.

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Public Health Nursing Service (PHNS)

Our service offers support to children, young people and their families across all schools in Canterbury with nurses based at some rural facilities.

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