Hunter New England Local Health District: update to healthcare facility visitation
Hunter New England Local Health District continues to focus on providing a safe health service for patients, their families and carers, and staff, while providing kind and compassionate care.
Visitors to our hospitals, community health centres, and outreach clinics are welcome but must wear a mask correctly before entering and while inside a healthcare facility. Children aged 12 and under are not required to wear masks.
All visitors will be screened on entry and must follow the advice of healthcare staff at all times.
Visitors will generally be permitted if they:
- Wear a surgical mask correctly at all times while in the facility
- Have not tested positive to COVID-19 within the last 10 days
- Have not tested positive to another acute respiratory infection in the last seven days
- Do not have symptoms of COVID-19 or other acute respiratory infection
- Are not high-risk contacts of someone who has COVID-19 in the previous 14 days
- Have not arrived from overseas in the past seven days.
An exemption to any of the above criteria may be permitted on compassionate grounds and on a case-by-case basis including maternity and neonatal services.
More information on the requirements for participants in care for maternity services (birth partners) can be found on NSW Health.
If the person you are wishing to visit is currently COVID-19 positive, your request will need to be clinically assessed and some additional restrictions may apply.