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Surgical Services

Our commitment is to provide the very best in patient care, combining the latest technology with highly skilled, caring staff. Our aim is to make sure that your stay is a comfortable, relaxed and positive experience.

Our surgical facilities are world class:

  • Three purpose built Day Surgery operating theatres and four spacious inpatient theatres, designed to ensure patient privacy.
  • All operating theatres built to international standards to ensure patient and staff safety.
  • High quality (laminar) airflow.
  • Excellent Infection Control management. Ongoing monitoring of all procedures by Infection Control Nurse.
  • High quality sterilisers.
  • Itemised tracking of all sterilised equipment used for each patient.
  • Our clinical staff are highly experienced and committed to providing patients with the very best in pre and post operative care.
  • All our operating theatres are equipped to respond to any patient emergency that might occur during any particular procedure.
  • New 12 bed Recovery room. Every bed provided with a wide range of modern monitoring equipment. All care provided by Registered Nurses.

Click to view one of our theatres (requires Quicktime for PC/Mac).

Our nursing staff are highly experienced and committed to providing patients with the very best practice in clinical and post-operative care.

Our patient rooms are designed to maximise patient comfort and convenience. We supply push-button controlled beds, individual room controlled air conditioning, SKY TV, in-house video - DVD system; radio and internet access.

Click to view (requires Quicktime for PC/Mac):
    Single room.
    Twin room.
    Four bed room.

For Day Stay patients please visit our Day Surgery Centre.

St George’s Hospital offers a wide range of surgical services including the following specialties: -

  • General and vascular
  • Breast surgery
  • Colorectal surgery
  • Endoscopy
  • Urology
  • Orthopaedic surgery
  • Otolaryngology (ENT)
  • Plastic / Reconstructuive / Cosmetic surgery
  • Gynaecology and Obstetrics
  • Paediatric surgery
  • Oral and Maxillofacial (dental and oral)
  • Ophthalmology (Eyes)
  • Laser treatments
  • Neurosurgery
  • Cardiac surgery
  • Thoracic surgery
  • Cardiac Investigation & Intervention
  • Bariatric surgery
  • Brachytherapy
  • Oncology
  • Cardiology
  • Dental
  • Rehabilitation


St George's HospitalDisclaimer249 Papanui Road, Christchurch. Telephone: 03 355 9179, Fax: 03 355 2057