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 .

CEO Update – Monday 18 February 2019

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Monday 18 February 2019Waitaha Canterbury Pānui2 minutes to read

Canterbury DHB CEO UpdateIn this week's CEO Update…

Chief Executive David Meates reflects on last week’s Mihi for a new intake of nurses into the New Entry to Practice (NetP) programme, and thanks the graduating nurses for the contribution they’ve made over the past year. He also shares some words on the upcoming Christchurch earthquake anniversary, and how the pilot Step Up programme – which helps people with health conditions or disabilities to find and stay in work or to engage in education or training – has been going since it began in 2017.

This issue also talks about the donation of some hand-knitted teddy bears to Nelson Hospital following the Nelson fires organised by the Chaplaincy team, gives a tribute to Kath Low who recently passed away, having worked for WellFood for nine years and was the Avon Café Manager at Hillmorton Hospital, and much more.

You can read the Canterbury DHB CEO Update in two different formats:

View on issuu.com Download PDF (5MB)

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