When you visit friends and family on the wards, please help us protect our patients and staff by complying with our infection prevention and control measures. Find out more by looking at our information for visitors.
Please note that our outpatient and day units (Elmwood, Maternity Assessment Centre and the Medical Day Unit) are not wards and so don’t have visiting times. The hours listed are the opening times for appointments and clinics.
Children under the age of 12
Children under the age of 12 years are welcome to visit relatives however, this needs to be checked with the Nurse In Charge on the ward. Wards are busy and sometimes what a child or young person could observe may upset them, or equipment and poorly patients that maybe in the bay with their relative could distress them. Children unfortunately pick up viruses themselves and we would want to check that they are well prior to coming onto the ward visiting a relative that is already ill.
Alternatively, if patients are well enough they could meet their young relatives at the coffee shop at the main entrance of Harrogate District Hospital which would be a better environment for children.