We look forward to welcoming you to our hospital. Your admitting nurse will discuss the admission process with you, including any relevant medical information and will endeavour to make you feel as comfortable as possible.

Inpatients and Day Case patients

• If you are an inpatient and prefer to be admitted directly to your room, please discuss this with your specialist prior to admission.
• You will be transferred from the recovery unit to your private room as soon as your condition allows.
• For your own safety, please ensure that a nurse is present when you first get out of bed.

Day Surgery patients

• If you are a day surgery patient you may request a private room (subject to availability) and our normal daily room rate will apply. Please feel free to discuss this option with us when you phone us for a cost estimate.
• As soon as your condition allows, you will be transferred from the recovery unit to the ‘second-stage’ recovery area where you will relax in a ‘la-z-boy’ chair until you are ready for discharge.
• Food and fluids will be provided.

Accompanying your child to the operating theatre

In order to reduce separation anxiety in children over the age of 12 months, a parent or caregiver may stay with their child while the child is anaesthetised, provided that both the surgeon and the anaesthetist agree. If you choose to do this you will be asked to change into appropriate hospital-supplied clothes.

Once your child is anaesthetised you will be shown out of the theatre area and back to your child’s room or waiting area. Please make use of the tea and coffee-making facility available in the reception foyer while you wait for the return of your child.

You should not feel in any way pressured to go into theatre. We realise that parents or caregivers need to feel comfortable about going in, and children do often cope remarkably well with just the theatre nurses and doctors. As an alternative, parents or caregivers may accompany their child into the reception area of theatre without getting changed.