Under COVID-19 Delta Alert Level 2 visitor access for Canterbury DHB health facilities will continue to be restricted to enable safe physical distancing.
For more details about what to do when visiting please see our COVID-19 page.
The Kaikōura Health (Te Hā o Te Ora) facility provides primary care, aged care, acute care, maternity, radiology, and medical/trauma stabilisation services.
Located on the old Kaikōura hospital site, the new state-of-the-art Health Centre accommodates 21 beds, which includes 14 long stay rooms as well as six GP managed flexi-beds and a delivery/postnatal maternity suite plus a resuscitation room and observation bed and radiology. It also accommodates multi-purpose General Practice rooms, physiotherapy, community dental, and other visiting health specialists.
Services include palliative care, post-surgery support, pre-operation, nurse-led fracture clinics, dementia patient support, health promotion activities and wound care clinics. Video conferencing technology also enables people to have face to face consultations with their specialist health provider without having to leave Kaikōura.
Kaikōura Health (GP admitted inpatients, aged residential care and maternity)
Kaikōura Healthcare (General Practice)
Kaikōura Healthcare (General Practice)
Walk in clinics on the weekends and public holidays are for urgent and emergency care and patients with urgent conditions are given first priority, all other patients are seen on a first-come first-served basis. After-hours charges will apply.
After-hours medical care: If you call the clinic you will be transferred to our after-hours service.
In a medical emergency, call 111 and ask for an ‘ambulance’.
We welcome your feedback about our services and your experiences at Kaikōura Health.
Note: We cannot give medical advice by email. Please contact your doctor or the person in charge of your medical care.
Accessible facility
Disability car parking
Food & drink vending machines
Language Interpreters
Patient and visitor parking
Smokefree hospital
Visitor & accessible toilets
Wi-Fi (Free to use)
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| Service | Phone | Fax |
|---|---|---|
| Aged residential care | 03 319 3500 | 03 319 3513 |
| Community Dental | 0800 825 583 | - |
| General Enquiries | 03 319 7760 | - |
| Inpatients | 03 319 3500 | 03 319 3513 |
| Long stay patients | 03 319 3500 | 03 319 3513 |
| Kaikoura Healthcare (General Practice formally known as Kaikoura Medical Centre) | 03 319 3500 press 2 | 03 319 3513 |
| Kaikoura Physiotherapy | 03 319 3500 press 4 | - |
| Maternity Unit | 03 319 3500 | 03 319 3513 |
| Nurse Manager | 03 319 3500 | 03 319 3513 |
| Kaikoura Public Health Nurse/Well Child Nurse | 03 319 3500 | - |
Page last updated: 7 September 2021
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