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.

1284 documents.

Consumer Council Minutes – 18 February 2021

Consumer Council Minutes – 18 February 2021

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Consumer Council Agenda – 13 May 2021

Consumer Council Agenda – 13 May 2021

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Board Meeting – Friday, 6 August 2021

Board Papers for the West Coast DHB Board meeting Friday, 6 August 2021 meeting

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Neurology / Multiple sclerosis – Official Information Act Request Response

Neurologists/Nurses/Nurse specialists staffing numbers. Waiting times 2020/2021 Financial year FSAs, Outpatients, follow up, Outpatient MRI, Outpatient infusion clinic appointment.

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Progressive Procurement Policy – Official Information Act Request Response

•Copies of any communications you have sent to suppliers or contractors asking whether they meet the definition of a Māori business; •Copies of any communications you have sent to suppliers or contractors advising them of the requirements of the Progressive Procurement Policy; •The number/value of contracts your agency has terminated because a supplier or contractor didn’t meet the definition of a Māori business since the Progressive Procurement Policy came into force; •The number/value of contracts your agency has signed with Māori businesses since the Progressive Procurement Policy came into force.

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Contraception funding – Official Information Act Request Response

$6 million per annum in funding that was allocated to the better access to contraception : I want to know how this funding has been allocated and spent over the last 2 years by West Coast DHB – would it be possible to get a full breakdown of how much of the $6 million the DHB receives, how, where and to who they’ve been distributing it and whether the funding has been used up or if it has been underspent?

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CEO- Peter Bramley – expenses ending June 2021

  • Date: 2 Aug 2021
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  • ID: WCDHB-CEO-EXP-2020-2021-PB

CEO Expenses – Peter Bramley – 1 July 2020 to 30 June 2021 for West Coast DHB.
The purpose of regular public disclosure of Chief Executive’s (CE) expenses is to provide transparency and accountability for discretionary expenditure by CEs of Public Service departments and statutory Crown entities.

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CEO- David Meates – expenses ending June 2021

  • Date: 2 Aug 2021
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  • ID: WCDHB-CEO-EXP-2020-2021-DM

CEO Expenses – David Meates – 1 July 2020 to 30 June 2021 for West Coast DHB.
The purpose of regular public disclosure of Chief Executive’s (CE) expenses is to provide transparency and accountability for discretionary expenditure by CEs of Public Service departments and statutory Crown entities.

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CEO- Andrew Brant – expenses ending June 2021

  • Date: 2 Aug 2021
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  • ID: WCDHB-CEO-EXP-2020-2021-AB

CEO Expenses – Andrew Brant – 1 July 2020 to 30 June 2021 for West Coast DHB.
The purpose of regular public disclosure of Chief Executive’s (CE) expenses is to provide transparency and accountability for discretionary expenditure by CEs of Public Service departments and statutory Crown entities.

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Colonoscopy decline data – Official Information Act Request Response

1.Colonoscopy decline data for the last five years? a. If possible, it would be good to have this data presented monthly, and as up to date as possible. b.This data should be presented by DHB area, with raw numbers as well as percentages, please. c. Could MOH also provide a definition of “decline”, to ensure consistency between DHB data? For example, if a referral from a GP is declined, and, later, that person sees a specialist and is successfully accepted for a procedure, is that a decline? Also, if a full colonoscopy is suggested, but the procedure delivered is something lesser, like a flexible sigmoidoscopy or CT colonography, is that also a decline?

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Crohns Disease – Official Information Act Request Response

Total number of patients with Crohn’s disease of ulcerative colitis to receive biologic treatments (infliximab, adalumimab) between 2016 and 2020 inclusive who were 1. White New Zealander 2. Maori 3 Asian (Ideally separated into South Asian and East Asian) 5. Pacific Islanders by each ethnicity separately

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CAMHS / Eating disorder – Official Information Act Request Response

* how many people were referred to CAMHS in the last year with a suspected eating disorder
* how many were accepted for treatment
* how many required inpatient care
* how many were accepted to an inpatient unit
* how many are awaiting a place at an inpatient unit.

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Protecting your health in an emergency – Returning home after a flood

Flood water can contain lots of nasty bugs that could make you and your family sick.
Before you start the clean-up process, it’s important to follow these steps to keep you and your family safe.

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PET-CT scans – Official Information Act Request Response

How many PET CT scans have been referred per year the past 3 years? How many PET CT scans have been referred this year so far? What percentage of the patients being referred are Maori? What is the average cost per PET CT scan referral?

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Tatau Pounamu Meeting papers for July 2021

Tatau Pounamu Advisory Group meeting papers for 9 July 2021 meeting at IFHC Meeting Room, Corporate Services, Te Nīkau Hospital and Health Centre

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Waitlist psychiatric services – Official Information Act Request Response

“Can you please provide the number of people on the waiting list for psychiatric services, including eating disorder services, by DHB, as at 20 March 2021?”

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Mental Health Services – Official Information Request Response

Community Mental Health Services – Child and adolescent metal health; and (Te Haika) Mental Health Crisis response. DHB Mental Health Services Admissions, waitlists, number of psychologists employed by the DHB

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Joint replacement / Ear, Nose, Throat referrals – Official Information Act Request Response

Referrals by GP for Joint replacement 2017 and 2020 calendar years etc. Criteria for Joint surgery. Semi-urgent referrals from GP to Ears, nose and Throat how many seen by a specialist?

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Complaints ARC (Aged Care facilities) – Official Information Act Request Response

1. Copies of all complaints received about aged care facilities/rest homes since January 1 2020, and all related correspondence, reports, documents and memoranda. 2. Copies of any reports, documents, memoranda, correspondence, legal advice or emails, both internal and external regarding how aged care facilities/rest homes and their residents fared during Covid-19 related restrictions (such as lockdowns but also ongoing visitor restrictions), including any concern about the impact on residents, or staffing levels.

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Cyber security

Agendas/minutes past 3 years re cyber security (IT, ICT). Copies of any relevant risk registers that provide info re cyber (ITC, IT, info tech, data and digital) security and/or risks at any time in the last 3 years. And DHB response to DG Dr Bloomfield’s letter to DHBs dated 24 July 2020. Copies of risk registers.

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Psychometric testing – Recruitment

The details of any psychometric testing undertaken as part of staff recruitment, training, resourcing or outsourcing – including as undertaken by outside recruitment firms.

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Board Meeting – Friday, 25 June 2021

Board Papers for the West Coast DHB Board meeting Friday, 25 June 2021 meeting

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Gift register, Conflict of Interest.

1. Please provide the gift registers held by the DHB about gifts / contributions/received items given to DHB employees (including medical professionals) for the following years: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 2.Please provide records held regarding of any flights provided, paid for or subsidised by pharmaceutical or medical equipment companies to employees of the DHB (including medical professionals) in the following years: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 3.Please provide any information the DHB holds regarding professional affiliations, board roles or advisory positions held by employees of the DHB (including medical professionals) in connection to pharmaceutical or medical equipment companies. If possible, break these affiliations down by the following years: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016.

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SMO Christmas leave

The total number of annual leave days taken by (all) Senior Medical Officers (SMOs) in your employ in each of the following months for each DHB (WCDHB and CDHB) separately: a. December 2020 b. January 2021

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Mental Health Greymouth

All reports, minutes, plans, emails and other correspondence relating to the business case for a new mental health facility in Greymouth.

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PSMA/Prostate Specific Membrane Antigen

Is PSMA (Prostate Specific Membrane Antigen) PET-CT funded by the DHB or only available privately? If publicly funded, please can you advise whether there are criteria that must be met. For example:
∙ For staging of high risk and unfavourable intermediate risk prostate cancer before definitive local therapy. ∙ For restaging of PSA recurrence (≥0.2ng/ml).

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ICU costs ineligible / foreign patients

A summary of the costs of hospital intensive care services provided to those not entitled to NZ free health care (ineligible patients). The cost summary should include reference to the number of days or hours in intensive care. Information to cover the last three years.

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HPV Vaccine in schools

1. I wondered if I could request some information regarding the HPV vaccine in schools?
2. How many schools are part of the HPV immunisation programme in NZ
3. How many schools are not part of the HPV immunisation programme in NZ? Which ones?

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HPV Vaccine in schools

HPV Gardasil Vaccine: Number of schools refusing school based immunisation programme for this vaccine.

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Maternity – Official Information Act Request Response

In the last year: Any correspondence between the WCDHB, the Ministry of Health and the Health Quality and Safety Commission about maternity care at West Coast DHB.

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Advisory Committee Meeting – 10 June 2021

Advisory Committee Papers for 10 June 2021 Meeting

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Buller Health, Accommodation Costs Doctors

Accommodation costs for Buller Health doctors / Homes owned by WCDHB / how often these properties occupied by Buller health staff / propeties rented in Buller.

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Ethnicity, psychiatrists, allied health, mental health

Mental Health Act 1992: What is the ethnicity of psychiatrists currently working in DHB psychiatric inpatient units and what is the ethnicity of allied clinical staff working in DHB psychiatric units? What DHB protocols are there for ensuring Maori Clinical staff care for Maori Tangata Whaiora?

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Coronial findings

The number of times DHBs have challenged a coroner’s findings after an inquest.

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Tatau Pounamu Meeting papers for May 2021

Tatau Pounamu Advisory Group meeting papers for 28 May 2021 meeting at IFHC Meeting Room, Corporate Services, Te Nīkau Hospital and Health Centre

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Annual Maternity Quality and Safety Programme Report 2020 – 2021

The West Coast District Health Board is pleased to present the Maternity Quality and Safety Programme Annual Report for 2020/21.

The West Coast District Health Board is pleased to present the Maternity Quality and Safety Programme Annual Report for 2020.

The West Coast has had a busy year again this year as we completed the Maternity Strategy and agreed with the Board to use it as a platform to guide not only the first 1,000 days, but we have also initiated the programme called Growing Up Well on the West Coast. We have a project group with wide representation across our community and have commenced hui around different communities on the West Coast, so we can improve our maternity and other systems for whanau.

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1080 Whataroa Butler

A copy of the VTA permission for the aerial 1080 operation for the Whataroa Butler Aerial 1080 application.

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Air Ambulance

Registered flight nurses, inter-hospital transfers by air, cost of inter-hosp transfers by air, number of flights etc, cost sharing for inter-hospital transfers by air.

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