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 Monday 2 December 2024

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Monday 2 December 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 the Pānui, we read more about the nurse-led clinics in Medical Oncology Outpatients at Christchurch Hospital that has proven to be a transformative initiative in response to increasing service demands. We also get to know Stu Kearns, Transalpine Operational Protective Security Advisor, Canterbury & West Coast in this week’s One min with…

One Mother to Another is preparing to support hundreds of parents and whānau in hospital with a sick child this Christmas and employment offers have just been made to 844 newly graduated registered nurses. The vast majority of those 844 will be employed by Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora. The rest have been offered roles by our partners in the Advanced Choice of Employment (ACE) matching scheme.

With the Christmas period fast approaching the Canterbury Shared Care Planning Team is encouraging service providers to make use of shared care plans to coordinate care for the region’s most vulnerable people. 

The reset at Health New Zealand is beginning to take shape with funding starting to be freed up to strengthen the clinical frontline and provide better health care closer to home for more New Zealanders.

Due to ongoing high levels of pertussis cases (and hospitalisations) occurring consistently across the motu over the last several weeks, the National Public Health Service (NPHS) and the Public Health Agency has declared a national epidemic.  

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

 

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