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 20 January 2020

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Monday 20 January 2020Waitaha Canterbury Pānui1 minute to read

In this edition of the CEO Update…

CEO David Meates welcomes the new year and decade and looks at how far we’ve come from what we once imagined 2020 would be like. He pays tribute to Toni Gutschlag, General Manager, Mental Health who has taken up a new role at the Ministry of Health, and also shares that this year is the World Health Organization’s International Year of the Nurse and Midwife.

This issue also looks at changes being made to tackle the threat of ‘superbugs'; announces the launch of transgender care pathways; encourages staff to share their innovative ideas; congratulates the team of the Activity Room at Christchurch Hospital for a job well done; recognises a community service award recipient and long-standing staff member; and much more.

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

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