• All patients must be free of any COVID-19 symptoms prior to surgery.    If you have had COVID-19, you must be symptom free as follows:
  – 4 weeks symptom free for Day Surgery procedures.
  – 7 weeks symptom free for overnight admissions.
• If you, or anyone you have had contact with, has been identified as a close contact of a confirmed COVID-19 case, you cannot enter a high risk setting such as our hospitals for 7 days, and therefore cannot have surgery.
• If you are coming in for a consultation to one of the private suites (specialist practices), please contact the practice directly to find out their current guidelines.
• Patients can have surgery after arriving from overseas after 7 days, so long as they are symptom free.

For the safety of our patients, staff and visitors, visitors must:

• • Have not tested positive to COVID-19 in the past 10 days.
  • Not be a high-risk contact of someone who has had COVID-19 in the previous 7-10 days.