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 .

Canterbury DHB has not made a decision to cut services

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Tuesday 16 February 2016Media release2 minutes to read

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​Canterbury District Health Board chair, Murray Cleverley says the Board has not made a decision to cut mental health services.

“We will continue to provide the services our community needs. We are in ongoing discussions with the Ministry of Health to ensure we reach a point where we are financially and clinically sustainable,” Mr Cleverley says.

“I am incredibly proud of the way our own teams and the many primary and community-based mental health providers have worked to meet the increased demand for mental health services we have experienced in Canterbury since the quakes.”

Mr Cleverley says Canterbury DHB is not operating in a business as usual environment.

“And with Sunday's quake, we know the demand for a range of our mental health services is expected to increase further,” he says.

Mr Cleverley says one of his biggest concerns is for the wellbeing of staff working across our health system, who have been under incredible pressure for a sustained period of time.

“Many services, particularly those providing treatment, care and support for young people, are at capacity,” he says.

“We are committed to continue to provide the best access to mental health services that we can with the funding we have available.”

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