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 31 March 2025

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Wednesday 2 April 2025Waitaha 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 celebrate Pharmacy Technician Bronwyn Baiteary who began her career in pharmacy in 1975 when she joined the hospital’s Pharmacy Department embarking on a career journey that would span nearly 50 years. She retired last Wednesday from her role of Pharmacy Technician.  

Dietitian Catherine Wall has been awarded a Health Research Council (HRC) five- year research fellowship. Catherine is an expert dietitian in inflammatory bowel disease in Nutrition and Dietetics and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Otago Christchurch. 

Staff from Christchurch Hospital’s Wards A3 and A5 and Surgical Progressive Care Unit (SPCU) ran, walked and biked to raise money for Bowel Cancer New Zealand recently. They created two teams for the event, inventively titled ‘Bum on The Run’ (Ward A5) and ‘Colon Crusaders’ (Ward A3 and SPCU). Together they raised $1600. 

Brittany Blythe, Registered Oral Health Therapist, Community Dental Service is featured in this week’s One min with… and thanks, and congratulations to all our wonderful kaimahi (staff) who took up the challenge and cycled to work in February. Health New Zealand |Te Whatu Ora, Waitaha gained third place (after University of Canterbury and Christchurch City Council). Collectively these cyclists avoided 70,649kg of carbon dioxide equivalent being produced over the month. 

This Sunday, March 30, marks 20 years since the opening of Christchurch Women’s Hospital – two decades of dedicated care for women, babies and whānau across Waitaha, Canterbury and Te Tai o Poutini, West coast.

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

 

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