Visitors can be anyone a person in a NSW Health setting chooses to:

• keep them company
• care for them
• speak up or make decisions for them.

For example, a visitor might be a:

bullet parent or family member

bullet friend

bullet Elder or community member.end of list

A visitor might be a pet or assistance animal.

Assistance animals are trained to support people with disability in different ways.  

For example, a guide dog. 

A visitor might also be a guardian.

A guardian is a person who acts and makes decisions for someone.

A guardian might be:

• a family member
• a friend
• chosen by the government.