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 14 April 2025

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Monday 14 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 the Christchurch Hospital’s Emergency Department (ED) Education Team. They have been recognised for its excellent programme with a prestigious award from the Australasian College of Emergency Medicine. 

Acting Chief of Service Older Persons Health and Rehabilitation (OPH&R) Martin Lee retired last Friday. Martin began work in 1995 as a Community Dental Officer under HealthLink South. He has been an integral member of the OPH&R Clinical Directors, Dental Team and Senior Leadership team. 

Advanced Practice Physiotherapist in Stroke Rehabilitation at Burwood Hospital, Mark Adams has teamed up with Stroke Aotearoa New Zealand, helping organise a challenge with a difference to raise funds and awareness about the impact of stroke and the rehabilitation that stroke survivors do to support their recovery. 

Over $3000 was raised by a team of paediatric nurses who ran, walked and cycled in a month-long fitness challenge to raise money for Starship’s Air Ambulance. Sponsorship of their efforts will go towards New Zealand’s only flying paediatric intensive care unit in the air – Starship’s National Air Ambulance, which is on call 24/7, and can have a full crew in the air in minutes. 

Wednesday 16 April is Administrative Professionals Day and we’re paying tribute to all the administrators, ward clerks, medical secretaries, receptionists, telephonists, secretaries, booking administrators, clinical records officers, payroll officers, clinical coders, personal assistants, data entry operators and many other administration stars who keep Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora ticking.  

Masuisuimatamaalii Tauasa Pauaraisa (Sui) – Clinical Administrator, Diabetes Department is featured in this week’s One min with…

Supporting continued safe practice and identifying areas for improvement was the aim of a clinical simulation exercise of clot retrieval at Christchurch Hospital recently. The session was organised and run by the Anaesthetic Simulation team who were invaluably assisted by the excellent Simulation faculty from Manawa, and nurse educators from ED and Neurology. 

Sustainability Month is all about providing resources and tools to lessen our impact on the environment, in an entertaining and fun way!  Want to learn more about sustainability? Catch some of these recommendations from the Sustainability Team.

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

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