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 .

Eight of the most common ways kids get injured

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Childhood injuries are common. Thankfully most of these are minor. But every year in New Zealand children are badly injured or die in accidents.

Learn what you can do to help prevent your children getting injured with these eight Kidshealth factsheets.

Quick tips:

  • Use fences and barriers to stop children getting near cars or water
  • Turn pot handles towards the back of the stove so kids can't grab them
  • Hot tap water should be between 50 and 55 degrees
  • Use booster seats in cars until your child is 148cm tall
  • Check multiple times for kids before starting a car and while reversing
  • Supervise children around cars
  • Call the New Zealand National Poisons Centre immediately on 0800 POISON (0800 764 766) if you think your child is poisoned
  • Make sure children wear safety gear on bikes, scooters, skates and skate boards

Page last updated: 28 November 2018

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