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District Health Boards - Latest News [Page 5]

DHBs Meet

Saturday, 24 March 2007, 2:20 pm | District Health Boards

District Health Board representatives met separately with DML and Labtests today to discuss matters regarding interim arrangements for the supply of community laboratory testing for the Auckland region from 1 July. More >>

Statement of Reasonable GP Fee Increases

Tuesday, 23 January 2007, 4:25 pm | District Health Boards

A benchmark level of a reasonable fee increase for GP fees patients pay has been set for the first time by the DHBs, spokesperson Dr Win Bennett said today on behalf of all DHBs. More >>

Settlement in Radiation Therapists Strike

Monday, 15 January 2007, 9:38 am | District Health Boards

A pay deal’s been struck with Radiation Therapists who have called off all industrial action. Strikes threatened in Auckland and Wellington on Monday will not go ahead and DHBs will be trying to get back to normal treatment schedules as quickly as possible. More >>

DHBs call for end to ongoing strikes

Tuesday, 9 January 2007, 8:41 am | District Health Boards

District Health Boards are urging Radiation Therapists to accept the pay offer on the table and end their campaign of industrial action. More >>

Settlement With Junior Doctors Heralds New Way

Tuesday, 12 December 2006, 11:00 am | District Health Boards

District Health Boards and Junior Doctors will be meeting to discuss how to improve working conditions – this time the meeting is not under threat of strike. More >>

DHBs Still Willing To Talk To Lab Workers

Wednesday, 29 November 2006, 9:18 am | District Health Boards

Contact between the advocates in the laboratory workers strike continued last night and today some discussions with the mediator have occurred. However, the strike is still scheduled to go ahead from tomorrow morning. Gordon Davies, CEO of Canterbury ... More >>

Mediation Scheduled For Lab Workers Talks

Thursday, 23 November 2006, 1:39 pm | District Health Boards

District Health Boards say talks with a mediator planned for Friday and Monday are the best chance of preventing the week-long strike threatened by laboratory workers. More >>

Time to get back to the table

Monday, 20 November 2006, 11:08 am | District Health Boards

DHBs involved in the strike by Medical Radiation Technologists are hoping for an early return to negotiations. "Now that the strike is over, we will contact the union to see if we can get back around the table as soon as possible," says DHB spokesman ... More >>

DHBs welcome settlement in Junior Doctors’ Negotns

Wednesday, 15 November 2006, 4:06 pm | District Health Boards

Chief Executives of the country’s 21 District Health Boards will meet to consider ratifying a settlement in the year-long negotiations with Junior Doctors for a new employment agreement. More >>

Lab Workers Action Disappointing

Wednesday, 15 November 2006, 8:40 am | District Health Boards

District Health Boards are disappointed the first response to the Lab Workers Pay offer is notice of a strike. More >>

Lets get back to the table

Saturday, 11 November 2006, 3:50 pm | District Health Boards

DHBs involved in the strike by Medical Radiation Technologists are calling on the Union to return to negotiations. More >>

MRT Strike Times

Friday, 10 November 2006, 10:30 am | District Health Boards

Please note that the starting time for the sttike by Medical Radiation Technologists or MRTs is NOT the same at all DHBs. Some media have been reporting that the strike starts at 10.00am - that is the case ONLY in Canterbury and could disrupt plans for ... More >>

Strike On As Union Rejects New Pay Deal

Friday, 10 November 2006, 8:49 am | District Health Boards

The strike by radiographers in seven District Health Boards now seems certain to go ahead after the radiographers union rejected a new pay proposal during negotiations with a mediator in Auckland today. More >>

Talks To Avert A DHB Strike Continue

Thursday, 9 November 2006, 11:07 am | District Health Boards

Talks will continue tomorrow to try and prevent the strike by radiographers in seven District Health Boards. More >>

Medical Radiation Technologist Strike

Saturday, 4 November 2006, 5:00 pm | District Health Boards

District Health Boards are exploring options that could be developed to avert next week’s threatened strike by Medical Radiation Technologists*. More >>

End the theatre and get back to talks!

Monday, 18 September 2006, 3:01 pm | District Health Boards

District Health Boards are calling on the radiographers’ union to stop playing media games with patients and get back to negotiations. “We have never refused an opportunity for meaningful negotiations with this union to try and settle this ... More >>

Time for negotiation in radiographers’ strike

Friday, 15 September 2006, 8:41 am | District Health Boards

District Health Boards say next week’s radiographers’ strikes can be prevented if the union is prepared to compromise as much as hospitals have. More >>

15% too much to swallow in one go

Wednesday, 13 September 2006, 9:43 am | District Health Boards

Radiographers or Medical Radiation Technologists are striking for the same terms and conditions as their counterparts in other parts of the country. District Health Boards acknowledge the claim, but 15% at a time when inflation is around 3% is unrealistic. More >>

MRT Strike Notice Deliberate & Cynical

Tuesday, 5 September 2006, 4:08 pm | District Health Boards

District Health Boards say the radiographers threatened strikes are deliberately and cynically timed actions to have the maximum impact on patients. Radiographers or Medical Radiation Technologists* at seven DHBs - Southland, Otago, Canterbury, ... More >>

Junior Doctors: Further Talks scheduled

Friday, 23 June 2006, 10:05 am | District Health Boards

Talks on the junior doctors’ dispute have ended for the day with an agreement to meet again next week. The Lead Advocate for the country’s 21 DHBs, Dr Nigel Murray – Interim CEO of Southland District Health Board – says both parties have agreed ... More >>

   

 
 
 
 
 

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