Canterbury
Christchurch Hospital Intensive Care Unit is a Tertiary Intensive Care Facility, with 36 beds with resourced beds in 3 pods. The unit provides tertiary care for people in Waitaha Canterbury and Te Tai o Poutini West Coast. The unit is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, and is staffed by a large team of experienced doctors, nurses, and allied health professionals.
Patients may be admitted to Intensive Care from the emergency department, hospital wards, operating theatre, or following transfer from another hospital or Intensive Care Unit.
The Canterbury Region
The Canterbury region is located on the east coast of New Zealand's South Island. Ōtautahi Christchurch, is the second largest city in Aotearoa New Zealand and the largest city in Te Waipounamu, the South Island.
Canterbury is the home of the spectacular Southern Alps mountain range, is well-known for its outdoor adventure activities on offer, and scenic filming locations for the Lord of the Rings movies.
Health New Zealand | Waitaha Canterbury
Health New Zealand - Te Whatu Ora Waitaha (Canterbury) is the largest employer in Te Waipounamu (South Island). We deliver healthcare services to over 600,000 people that live in the Canterbury region, covering an area of the East Coast of the South Island from Kaikōura in the North, to Ashburton in the South, as well as the Rēkohu (Chatham Islands).
Situated on the Christchurch Campus is Christchurch Hospital, Christchurch Women’s Hospital, Waipapa (a purpose-built ‘state of the art facility’ for acute services which opened in 2020) and Christchurch Outpatients.
Christchurch Hospital is the largest tertiary, teaching and research hospital in Te Waipounamu with 836 beds, delivering a full range of emergency, acute, elective and outpatient services, and has the busiest emergency department in Australasia.
Christchurch Women’s Hospital delivers a full range of tertiary and secondary maternity services.
Burwood Hospital is one of Aotearoa’s centres of excellence for rehabilitation and elective orthopaedic surgery and houses our Older Persons Health services. It is also one of only two leading providers of specialist Spinal Rehabilitation Care in Aotearoa.
Our Specialist Mental Health Services deliver inpatient, outpatient, community based and mobile services to both adults and children.
Ashburton and Rural Health Services covers specialist medicine and community services with several smaller rural hospitals that work closely with local primary care.
Health New Zealand - Te Whatu Ora Waitaha also provides services to Te Tai o Poutini (West Coast) as part of a unique transalpine relationship.
Local Information
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Getting around
Metro buses operate 7 days a week from the city centre to outer suburbs.
Taxis and rideshare services Zoomy, Ola and Uber are also available in Christchurch as well as a variety of rental vehicle providers.
For the keen cyclists there are now more than 60km of cycle ways around Christchurch and the central city, which make getting around much safer and easier for everyone.
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