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 .

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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