HOSPITAL VISITING

All hospital visitors are recommended to wear a medical face mask. For more information about visiting: Visitors and family. See our COVID-19 page for general COVID-19 advice, detailed hospital visiting guidelines and COVID-19 tests.

See West Coast COVID-19 vaccination clinics for info on vaccinations link COVID-19 Vaccination • West Coast • Healthpoint

Last updated:
16 September 2022

Fewer visitor restrictions now apply

For visitors to all facilities (effective from and last updated on 16 September 2022)

Some visitor restrictions for all Te Whatu Ora Te Tai o Poutini West Coast health facilities remain in place, but we have relaxed others.

There is still a heightened risk to vulnerable people in hospital and so people must continue to wear a mask when visiting any of our facilities and follow other advice designed to keep patients, staff and other visitors safe.

Kia whakahaumaru te whānau, me ngā iwi katoa – this is to keep everybody safe:

  • Visitors or support people must not visit our facilities if they are unwell. Do not visit if you have recently tested positive for COVID-19 and haven’t completed your isolation period.
  • Patients in single rooms may have more than one visitor while patients in multi-bed rooms can have one visitor only per patient to ensure there is no overcrowding.
  • People can have one or two support people to accompany them to outpatients appointments.
  • Women in labour in a birthing suite, in Te Nīkau Hospital’s Maternity Ward and in Buller’s Kawatiri Maternity Unit can have the usual support people, subject to space, for the duration of their stay in our facilities.
  • Eating or drinking at the bedside is at the discretion of the Clinical Nurse Manager. Visitors must not eat or drink in multibed rooms because of the increased risk when multiple people remove their mask in the same space.
  • Hand sanitiser is available and must be used.

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.

Mask wearing

  • Surgical/medical masks must be worn at all sites, except in counselling, mental health and addiction services where it’s on a case-by-case agreement with patients. Masks will be provided if you don’t have one. In higher-risk environments, people, including young children, may not be able to visit if they cannot wear a mask.
  • Any member of the public with a mask exemption is welcome in all our facilities when attending to receive health care and *treatment. Please show your mask exemption card and appointment letter to staff at the entrance. *Treatment includes coming into the Emergency Department, outpatient appointments, surgery or a procedure.

Visiting patients with COVID-19

  • People are able to visit patients who have COVID-19 but they must wear an N95 mask – this will be provided if you don’t have one.
  • Other methods of communication will be facilitated e.g. phone, Facetime, Zoom, WhatsApp etc where visits aren’t possible.

You must NOT visit our facilities if you

  • are COVID-19 positive
  • are unwell. Please stay home if you have a tummy bug or cold or flu/COVID-19-like symptoms (even if you’ve tested negative for COVID-19).

Te Whatu Ora West Coast Aged Residential Care facilities

Visitors are welcome at our Aged Care Residential facilities, subject to the space available. All visitors must wear a surgical mask.

More COVID-19 information

Document Library

Our latest key plans and reports are listed at the top of this page, other recent documents are listed by date under these documents. You can also find many national publications, including responses to OIA requests on the Te Whatu Ora national website.

Use the search menu (left) to apply a filter to list other documents published by Te Whatu Ora Te Tai o Poutini West Coast, including our annual reports, annual plans and strategic plans.  Each document has a document type, a summary, and topics and tags associated with it.

1273 documents.

Advisory Committee Meeting – 10 August 2018

Advisory Committee Papers for 10 August 2018 Meeting

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Board Meeting August 2018

  • Date: 10 Aug 2018
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Patients sent back to GP after FSA, Orthopaedic, number performed in Greymouth, sent to Canterbury. Number elective surgeries. Number sent to Canterbury for surgery

Patients sent back to GP after FSA, Orthopaedic, number performed in Greymouth, sent to Canterbury. Number elective surgeries. Number sent to Canterbury for surgery.

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Suicides deaths in state care

Records of all suicides, attempts at suicide, suspected suicides, deaths and self-harm while in state care both in general mental health wards and in ICU. (10 years)

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Mental Health Staffing vacancies Acute capacity

Staffing in Acute Mental Health Units, years of experience, vacancies, maximum capacity patients in unit, Number of times above capacity

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More informationDownload pdf (237KB)

Various wait times for public health services

Waiting times for public Health Services in NZ: FSAs, ED admitted, discharged or transferred within six hours, % of hosp beds occupied over six months, MH services patients seen within 3 weeks, average wait for elective surgery over last year.

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More informationDownload pdf (394KB)

DHB documents lost in public place

List of incidents since Jan 2016 in which documents or other materials have been mistakenly left unaccompanied in public such as in a café, taxi

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Buller Community Profile Summary

The Buller Community Profile launched on July 7 2016 provides a snapshot in time to help identify local priorities and assist with planning service provision.

More informationDownload pdf (804KB)

Has the District Health Board (including Public Health Units etc.) contracted MethCon to do any work in the past two years?

Has DHB contracted MethCon to do any work in past two years? If so how much has been spent on MethCon and for what purpose. Please provide details of the service or project.

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Advisory Committee Meeting – 29 June 2018

Advisory Committee Papers for 29 June 2018 Meeting

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