Location
Street address
Grey Base Hospital
71 Water Walk Road
Greymouth
Postal address
Grey Base Hospital
PO Box 387
Greymouth 7840
Phone & Fax
Phone
- Main Reception Desk: 03-769-7400
- Patient Enquiries: 03-769-7400
- Appointments: 03-769-7400, Extension: 2901
Fax
- Medical Records: 03-769-7699
- Corporate Offices: 03-769-7791
To contact a hospital department or ward, call General Enquiries and ask for a department.
Enquiries and feedback
We welcome your feedback about our services and your experiences at Christchurch Hospital.
NOTE ABOUT MEDICAL ADVICE
We are unable to provide medical advice to people by email. Please contact your doctor or the person in charge of your medical care.
Patients
Visitors
Visiting hours
- General Wards: 2pm – 7pm daily
- Maternity/paediatric wards: 2pm – 7pm daily
Grey Base Hospital facilities at a glance
Accessible
Nearest ATM (New World)
Café
Chapel & Chaplains
Cycle stand
Disability car parking
Food & drink vending machines
Language Interpreters
Parking
Shuttles
Taxis / Telephone
Disabled & Visitor toilets
Visitor information reception
About Grey Base Hospital
Grey Base Hospital, located in Greymouth on the West coast of New Zealand’s South Island, is a modern hospital with experienced staff and support services. The hospital offers a variety of specialties, including; general surgery, orthopaedic treatment, anesthetics, obstetrics and gynaecology, general medicine and community health services.
There are three spacious operating theatres at the hospital, which are described as having the “best views in the world.” There are four consultant General Surgeons working either full-time or part-time at the hospital. Outpatient clinics for surgical patients are held in Greymouth and peripheral clinics are held in Hokitika, Westport and Reefton. The department also provides an upper and a lower GIU endoscopy service to the West Coast region. Close links are maintained with the tertiary referral hospital in Christchurch and patients are referred for both outpatient and inpatient services, so students should not expect to work with very complicated cases on an elective here.
One of the other key departments at the hospital is Obstetrics and Gynaecology, which is a small but vital unit for health care on the West coast. Doctors working in this department care for women spread over a distance greater than that from Auckland to Wellington, which is a large swath of remote areas. The staff at the hospital provide maternity care for the delivery of normal pregnancies, assisted vaginal deliveries and caesarean sections; some 360 deliveries a year, although a small proportion of high risk pregnancies are referred to Christchurch Women’s Hospital. The unit participates in the weekly hospital continuing medical education programmes, the hospital monthly morbidity and mortality meetings, monthly caesarean section review meetings, and monthly departmental meetings.
The hospital also has some modern equipment to support practice, including; ultrasound, digital radiology and a recent introduction of a windows-based patient management system , which has opened up tremendous potential for the electronic integration of case notes, general practitioner notes, laboratory and radiology findings.
Four tips to help prevent infections when visiting a patient in hospital
1) Don’t visit any patients if you are feeling unwell
2) Use the alcohol hand rub at our hand hygiene stations
3) Avoid sitting on a patient’s bed – please use chairs provided
4) Don’t use patients only toilets on hospital wards
Services
Services and wards at Grey Base Hospital are listed below.
Note: Selecting some of the services will take you to more information about them.
| Services | Location | Phone |
|---|---|---|
| B4 School Check Clinics | 03 769 7400, extn. 0 | |
| Cancer Support | 03 769 7400, extn. 0 | |
| CCCN / Older Persons' Health | 03 769 7400, extn. 0 | |
| Cervical Screening | 03 769 7400, extn. 0 | |
| Child's Health | Parfitt Ward | 03 769 7400, extn. 0 |
| Dietetics & Nutrition | Community Services | 03 769 7400, extn. 0 |
| Diversional Therapy | Community Services | 03 769 7400, extn. 0 |
| Family Planning & Sexual Health | 03 769 7400, extn. 0 | |
| General Practice Services | Greymouth Health Centre | 03 769 7400, extn. 0 |
| Hospital Services | Main Reception Desk | 03 769 7400, extn. 0 |
| Infection Control | Laboratory | 03 769 7400, extn. 0 |
| Laboratory | Laboratory | 03 769 7400, extn. 0 |
| Maori Health | Corporate Services Building | 03 769 7400, extn. 0 |
| Maternity | Barclay Ward | 03 769 7400, extn. 0 |
| Medical | 03 769 7400, extn. 0 | |
| Mental Health (Main) | Mental Health Department | 03 769 7400, extn. 0 |
| Mental Health (Depression) | Mental Health Department | 03 769 7400, extn. 0 |
| Nursing | Corporate Services Building | 03 769 7400, extn. 0 |
| Occupational Therapy | Community Services | 03 769 7400, extn. 0 |
| Older Persons' Health (CCCN) | 03 769 7400, extn. 0 | |
| Outpatients Department | Outpatients Department | 03 769 7400, extn. 0 |
| Oral Health Services | 03 769 7400, extn. 0 | |
| Orthotics | Transport Building | 03 769 7400, extn. 0 |
| Palliative Care | 03 769 7400, extn. 0 | |
| Patient Quality Services | 03 769 7400, extn. 0 | |
| People and Capability | 03 769 7400, extn. 0 | |
| Pharmacy | Pharmacy | 03 769 7400, extn. 0 |
| Pharmacy (Community) | Greymouth Town Centre | 03 769 7400, extn. 0 |
| Physio | Community Services | 03 769 7400, extn. 0 |
| Radiology | Radiology Department | 03 769 7400, extn. 0 |
| Sexual Health | 03 769 7400, extn. 0 | |
| Smokefree | PHO | 03 769 7400, extn. 0 |
| Social Work | Community Services | 03 769 7400, extn. 0 |
| Speech Language Therapy | Community Services | 03 769 7400, extn. 0 |
| Surgical | Operating Theatre | 03 769 7400, extn. 0 |
| Surgical (Day Surgery) | Operating Theatre | 03 769 7400, extn. 0 |
| Waiting List (Surgery) - CBU | Central Booking Unit | 03 769 7400, extn. 0 |
| Women's Health | 03 769 7400, extn. 0 |
Not sure where to go?
If unsure as to where the Grey Base Hospital department you are after is located, we invite you to inspect our two maps of the hospital grounds. There is a listing of most departments on the right of the images. You can also ask the kind reception clerks at our main reception desk on arrival. They will gladly point you in the right direction.
Parking is free
Parking is FREE all around the Grey Base Hospital campus.
There is a car DROP-OFF ZONE for patients just outside Grey Base Hospital main entrance, see hospital campus map.
If you are a patient you can be taken by car to be dropped off at the hospital main entrance.
Please note, that the speed limit on hospital grounds is 20 km/h.
If not sure where to go, we have very friendly staff at hospital main reception inside the hospital entrance who can direct you and help you if you have any hospital related queries.
St John Health Shuttle Service
St John runs two rural shuttles which are manned by volunteer staff – Monday – Friday from Buller to Greymouth and Hokitika to Greymouth return
For more information or to make a booking please contact:
0800 009 865 between 9am – 3pm
St John do not charge a fee for this service, however they do accept donations to help cover costs.
A pay phone to call a taxi is also provided inside the hospital near the main entrance (by Main Reception)
Where to park
There are designated parks for patients and visitors only. These are marked with yellow lines. These car parks have a length of parking restriction of 4 hours. White-lined car parks are for everybody and there’s no time limit for these.
Disability parking and drop-off zones
These are available for patients and visitors at the main entrance to Grey Base Hospital. We encourage you to use these areas, and then park in the disability parks. Please display your disability mobility card in the front window.
Disability Parking areas for Greymouth are highlighted on our Grey Base Hospital campus map.
Please be considerate when parking your car
Owners of cars illegally parked (i.e. mobility car parks without a card), or in areas not designed for parking could find out on returning that their vehicle has been towed away. So, please ensure that you park you car or motorbike in just those places that permit parking.
There is a covered bike stand just to the right of the road overbridge on the Grey Base Hospital campus opposite the main hospital building for staff and public use. See the hospital campus map for this and other bike parking locations.
Note: Bike parking is at the owner’s own risk, please remember to lock your bike securely.
If you are a mobility parking permit holder, you can park in one of the designated mobility car parking spaces located around the Grey Base Hospital car park.
View the hospital parking locations map for mobility car parking locations.
Grey Base Hospital Maps
2 graphics of the Grey Base Hospital Campus
The two graphics, kindly provided by Team Architects (contact details provided on the images), show locations of wards, departments, as well as access and car parking. 2 views are provided: One from the East, and one from the West.
Grey Base Hospital buildings showing wards and departments as well as available parking – View from East
Grey Base Hospital buildings showing wards and departments as well as available parking – View from West
- Map of Grey Base Hospital (campus map)
- Directions to Grey Base Hospital
- Parking locations near the hospital
Parking is free
Parking is FREE all around the Grey Base Hospital campus.
Directions to hospital
You’ll find Grey Base Hospital on your way out of town, located to the right, just after the roundabout and the Mobil Service station.
Directions in hospital
You can ask for directions at the main reception desk.
Large signs indicate routes to hospital services and wards.
Printable hospital map
Wards
Cafeteria
The hospital cafeteria is on the ground floor of the main hospital building. It is open at the following times:
Open hours:
Weekdays: 6.30am – 4.00pm
Weekends: 8.30am – 3.00pm
Meal types:
Light Breakfast: 7.30am – 8.30am
Lunch: (selection): 11.30am – 1.15pm
Dinner: Talk to staff before 4pm to arrange.
Closest pharmacies
The pharmacies nearest to Grey Base Hospital are Mason’s Pharmacy and Unichem Olsens Pharmacy, both located in Greymouth’s centre of town.
Mason’s Pharmacy
Location: 34 Tainui St
Website: Mason’s Pharmacy
Phone: 03 768-7470
Fax: 03 768-9993
Unichem Olsens Pharmacy
Location: Corner Tainui and Guiness Streets
Website: Unichem Olsens Pharmacy
Phone: 03 768-4075
Fax: 03 768-6894
Page last updated: 4 December 2018
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