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 April 2025

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Monday 7 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 a new carpal tunnel initiative, a collaboration between the Orthopaedics and Plastics teams, that successfully helped reduce the waitlist for patients in need of surgery.  

Mary Milne, Registered Midwife is featured in this week’s One min with… Mary started as a midwife and has been with us for 50 years.

Laughter, nostalgia, and a deep sense of gratitude filled the room as past and present staff gathered for a special afternoon tea to celebrate 20 years of care at Christchurch Women’s Hospital on the Christchurch campus.  

Our kaimahi flu immunisation programme is now up and running across our workplace sites, with vaccination clinics, and in some district hospitals – vaccinator roving trolley rounds. 

Welcome to Sustainability Month! This is an initiative of the Sustainability Team and chosen as a theme for April because April contains several significant dates: World Health Day (7 April), Earth Day (22 April) and New Zealand Earth Overshoot Day – the day New Zealand’s demands on nature exceeds nature’s capacity to meet the demands (30 April).  

Recruitment has begun for an exciting new University of Otago lecturer role based in Ashburton at the Rural Health Academic Centre Ashburton  (RHACA), part of the Centre for Rural Health.   

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

 

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