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 .

Te Whatu Ora Waitaha | Canterbury Pānui Monday 21 August 2023

Monday 21 August 2023Waitaha Canterbury Pānui2 minutes to read

In this edition of Te Whatu Ora Waitaha | Canterbury Pānui

The recent announcement of some changes to COVID-19 settings reflects that there has been a reduction in the number of COVID-19 cases
across the motu. It also acknowledges that infectious respiratory illnesses, including influenza, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and COVID-19, are still affecting people in our community. The Te Whatu Ora Waitaha policy of recommending wearing face masks in all our health, disability and aged care facilities remains unchanged. Some areas of our facilities will continue to require people to wear face masks to protect the most vulnerable.

Also, in this edition, there's an update on the Minor Health Conditions service, and one of our own emergency physicians has contributed to a research paper on Kawasaki disease here in Aotearoa, New Zealand.

This Friday is Daffodil Day, and our staff have marked World Photography Day 2023 and the theme ‘understanding clouds' with some fabulous images shared in the pānui.

You can read the Te Whatu Ora Waitaha | Canterbury Pānui in two different formats:

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