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 24 May 2021

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Monday 24 May 2021Waitaha Canterbury Pānui1 minute to read

CEO UpdateIn this edition of the CEO Update

In this week’s CEO Update Peter talks about the current pressure on Christchurch Hospital’s Emergency Department as well as the need for everyone to exercise caution before opening emails and attachments that could potentially unleash a computer virus.

He acknowledges the extraordinary people working in the Community and Public Health team, thanks the Canterbury DHB employees who completed the recent Tangata Ora survey and asks everyone to be patient and kind when dealing with the hard-working call centre currently managing all manner of COVID-19 vaccination enquiries.

Other stories include updates on our Rangiora and Selwyn Health Hubs, important research on vitamin D in newborns, the digitisation of Community Service referrals, and more.

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

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