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 7 October 2024

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

In this week’s issue of the Pānui, we read about the team at the Chatham Islands Health Centre undertaking emergency response planning and stakeholder engagement to ensure they are well positioned to look after patients in the case of a large-scale emergency and acknowledge and celebrate Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

Kaysha Brownlie, Regional Medial Advisor, Central and Te Waipounamu is featured in this week’s One min with… and we read more about how a late relative inspired Rangiora woman Stephanie Schwabe to continue her legacy of making crochets hats for babies and toddlers in our care.

Newly appointed network co-leads, Rawiri McKree Jansen (Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Hinerangi) and Ryan Paul (Ngāti Maru, Hauraki) are seeking committed people to join a new national network for diabetes, Mahitahi Matehuka and kaimahi wanting to know more about the Planning, Funding and Outcomes (PFO) business unit can now find information on a new PFO site.

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

 

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