As always, call 111 if it is an emergency. If it’s not urgent, contact your medical centre, ask for advice at a pharmacy, or call Healthline for free medical advice on 0800 611 116.
What plans are in place?
Wairarapa DHB’s number one priority is patient safety, and a lot of time has gone into hospital and community nursing planning to ensure our hospital can continue to provide acute care and emergency services during the strike action. All appointments that are affected have been discussed with the patients, and rebooking plans are in place.
Visiting instructions
To ease pressure during the strike, family members and friends are asked to spread their visits throughout the day if possible.
What services will be operating?
Clinical services that will be available include:
·Emergency Department
·Paediatric inpatient ward
·Acute surgery
·High dependency units
·Adult inpatient services
·Acute mental health services
·Rehabilitation Unit
·Maternity
·Palliative care
·Some chemotherapy services
·Some community nursing eg medication run services.
Clinical services that won’t be available include:
·Outpatient clinics
·Elective surgery
·Day procedures unit
·COVID-19 vaccination clinic.
What can I expect?
If you come to ED and do not have an urgent problem, you may be waiting a long time in ED while more urgent people are seen first.
We will keep you updated here on this webpage with any new developments.
