VISITING HOSPITAL

All hospital visitors are recommended to wear a medical face mask. Expand this message for information about visiting hospital.

Last updated:
13 March 2023

Some visitor restrictions for all 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 so we recommend 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 must not visit our facilities if they are unwell. 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 recommended to be worn at all sites. Masks will be provided if you don’t have one.
  • For Specialist Mental Health Services everyone is strongly encouraged to wear a face mask in all inpatient areas and areas where consumers are receiving care (i.e. community appointments, home-visits, transporting people). Discretion may be applied in cases where masks impair your ability to communicate effectively.
  • Visitors must not eat or drink in multibed rooms because of the increased risk when multiple people remove their face mask in the same space.
  • Hand sanitiser is available and must be used.

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 an N95 mask – this will be provided if you don’t have one.
  • Other methods of communication will be facilitated e.g. phone, Facetime, Zoom, WhatsApp etc where visits aren’t possible.

All of our Hospitals

Visiting hours for our hospitals have returned to pre COVID-19 hours with the exception of Christchurch Women’s Hospital.

All visitors are recommended to wear a medical face mask.

Parents/caregivers are able to be with their child in hospital and visitors are now allowed, except for the Children’s Haematology and Oncology Day stay where just one parent/caregiver is able to attend their appointment with their child. Exceptions by special arrangement only.

Patients and visitors should also read the additional more detailed visiting guidelines for each specific hospital.

More COVID-19 information

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora Waitaha Canterbury Pānui 2 September 2024

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Monday 2 September 2024Waitaha Canterbury Pānui2 minutes to read

In this edition of Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora Waitaha Canterbury Pānui

In this week’s issue of Pānui, we acknowledge some of our dedicated Christchurch Hospital volunteers who were recognised at a special awards ceremony last week. Volunteers received Community Service Awards from the Waipapa Papanui-Innes Central Community Board’s Chair Emma Norrish and Deputy Chair Simon Britten. Long service awards were given out by Interim General Manager Christchurch Campus Nathan Hood.

In honour of Daffodil Day, our Radiation Oncology Registrars donned yellow duck shirts to show their support, while over in Oncology the faces of patients undergoing cancer treatment lit up as daffodils were handed out at Christchurch Hospital.

We catch up with Edmund Abarico, an Operating Theatre Assistant (OTA) at Christchurch Hospital and learn about his work and how he got into the role. Over at Hillmorton Hospital, we meet a team that is believed to be the only one in the country in a public mental health service using the Mindsight programme for people diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). Mindsight is part of the Adult Community Service which has operated this innovative treatment programme for 15 years.

There is a lot happening throughout September – it’s Safe Mobility month in Canterbury, which aims to raise awareness for people to ‘get up often and move safely’, World Physiotherapist Day is coming up this Sunday 8th, and we kick off Blue September to raise awareness for prostate cancer.

Finally, Te Tahi Youth board member Paige Sullivan has been nominated as a finalist for the Westfield Local Heroes Award which shines a spotlight on individuals in Australia and New Zealand who make a significant positive impact on their local community or environment. From over 1,000 nominations, three finalists from each Westfield destination go through to a community vote so for Paige to be named as a finalist is an enormous achievement.

 

You can read the Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora Waitaha Canterbury Pānui online.

 

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