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 – Tuesday 7 February 2017

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Tuesday 7 February 2017Waitaha Canterbury Pānui1 minute to read

In this week’s CEO Update you can read about the projects underway that show progress towards being paper-lite (and saving thousands in the process!).

There’s good news for North Cantabrians with the surgical bus set to park up at the Rangiora Health Hub to provide more surgery closer to home for locals. You can step inside the bus on Tuesday 14 March from 8am-3pm during an open day at the Rangiora Health Hub.

Read about the new integrated model of care in Kaikoura which will see Canterbury DHB and Kaikoura Healthcare Ltd share a management and leadership structure. This truly integrated team model brings together primary, secondary, tertiary and aged residential care services. And on page 12 see why ‘swallow therapy’ is putting smiles on patients faces at Burwood.

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Page last updated: 18 October 2018

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