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 8 June 2020

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Monday 8 June 2020Waitaha Canterbury Pānui2 minutes to read

In this edition of the CEO Update…

CEO David Meates reflects on some of the beneficial behavioural changes we’ve seen in our health system due to COVID-19, such as an increased awareness of hand hygiene, as well as a reduction in the spread of flu/influenza-like illnesses. However, he reminds staff not to become complacent as we enter flu season, and encourages the 29 percent of staff who haven’t yet had their free flu shot to consider doing so.

This issue also highlights the changes a number of dental services made to ensure emergency dental care could still take place under Alert Levels 4 and 3, such as using technology to connect with patients; announces the launch iSupport, an additional way for staff to log their information technology requests; congratulates first year House Surgeon David Nair for being awarded the Pasifika Medical Association’s Papali’i Dr Semisi Ma’ia’i University of Otago Scholarship; and much more.

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

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