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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 .

Construction on Christchurch Hospital project to re-start

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Friday 11 April 2025Media release1 minute to read

Waipapa Tower 3

After a comprehensive investigation involving a range of industry experts, works on Waipapa Tower 3 project works can safely re-start from next week, Health New Zealand Te Waipounamu Deputy Chief Executive Martin Keogh says. 

After commencing in his role on 16 September 2024, he was made aware of 23 reported fume related incidents between February 2024 and September 2024 in the Waipapa building at Christchurch Hospital.  

On being made aware of these incidents, he temporarily ceased construction on Tower 3 site, established an Incident Management Team (IMT) and led out a comprehensive investigation involving multiple internal and external experts with the focus being on the health, safety and wellbeing of staff and patients to ensure future works could be conducted within a safe environment. 

Below are its key findings, the recommendations from those key findings, as well the findings and recommendations of an independent Incident Cause Analysis Method (ICAM) investigation.

Construction on Christchurch Hospital project to re-start

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