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Nurses To Join Buller March To Fix The Health System
Saturday, 28 September 2024, 1:09 pm | NZNO
NZNO Kaiwhakahaere Kerri Nuku says the closure of the West Coast urgent care GP clinic will put more pressure on Buller Hospital, which is already stretched. More >>
Christchurch Health Workers To Protest Holidays Act Payment Delays
Monday, 11 March 2024, 9:33 am | NZNO
Today, health care workers in Canterbury Waitaha will protest the ongoing, almost eight-year delay in the payment of their holiday pay and other leave owed to them. At 12 noon, members of New Zealand Nurses Organisation Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki ... More >>
Government Not Vigorous Enough In Growing Nurses To Achieve Health Targets
Friday, 8 March 2024, 2:32 pm | NZNO
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa (NZNO) says it’s great the Government has announced five new health targets, but wonders how they will be met without a full nursing workforce that is locally grown and culturally ... More >>
Christchurch Health Workers To Protest Payment Delays
Friday, 8 March 2024, 12:14 pm | NZNO
On Monday, health care workers in Canterbury Waitaha will protest the ongoing, almost eight-year delay in the payment of their holiday pay and other leave owed to them. At 12 noon, members of New Zealand Nurses Organisation Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki ... More >>
Nurses Furious At Te Whatu Ora Holidays Act Remediation Pay Delays
Thursday, 15 February 2024, 3:24 pm | NZNO
New Zealand Nurses Organisation Toputanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa (NZNO) members employed by Te Whatu Ora are furious after almost eight years of delay in their employer’s failure to fix $1.95b worth of unpaid holiday pay and other leave they are owed. ... More >>
Nurses Support Keeping Childhood Immunisations In Primary Care
Wednesday, 24 January 2024, 2:49 pm | NZNO
New Zealand Nurses Organisation Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa (NZNO) says the Ministry of Health is jumping the gun by funding pharmacies to vaccinate infants before investing more in long-established immunisation service providers. Kaiwhakahaere ... More >>
‘Health Sacrificed For Tax Savings’
Wednesday, 20 December 2023, 2:36 pm | NZNO
New Zealand Nurses Organisation Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa (NZNO) is disappointed by the lack of priority given to health in Finance Minister Nicola Willis’ mini-Budget announcement this afternoon. Kaiwhakahaere Kerri Nuku said the "self-praised" ... More >>
Mini-Budget Must Prioritise Health Investment
Tuesday, 19 December 2023, 9:16 am | NZNO
New Zealand Nurses Organisation Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa (NZNO) says the cost of ignoring the health crisis will be detrimental to the long-term future of the country if the new government fails to significantly invest in the sector ... More >>
NZNO Member Meetings Put Te Whatu Ora On Notice
Friday, 24 November 2023, 2:16 pm | NZNO
The collective agreement ratified in August by members of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa (NZNO) who work for Te Whatu Ora will expire in less than a year and the union says these members have unfinished ... More >>
NZNO President Urges Kiwi To Vote Health
Thursday, 12 October 2023, 9:37 am | NZNO
The President of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa (NZNO) wants people living in Aotearoa New Zealand to vote with health in mind on Saturday. Anne Daniels, herself an emergency department nurse at Dunedin ... More >>
Auckland Nurses To Picket For Safe Staffing
Thursday, 5 October 2023, 10:27 am | NZNO
Nurses, midwives, health care assistants and kaimahi hauora will come to Manurewa from all over to Auckland to picket in support of safe staffing on Thursday 5 October. The New Zealand Nurses Organisation Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa (NZNO) ... More >>
Young Male Pasifika Lands Young Nurse Of The Year
Thursday, 21 September 2023, 9:59 am | NZNO
A young Pasifika male nurse has been recognised as New Zealand's Young Nurse of the year. John Fa’ukafa was presented with his award at the New Zealand Nurses Organisation Toputanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki Aotearoa (NZNO) Annual General Meeting and ... More >>
Health Minister To Headline Nurses’ Conference
Monday, 18 September 2023, 3:53 pm | NZNO
Minister of Health Ayesha Verrall will take the New Zealand Nurses Organisation Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa (NZNO) stage this Wednesday morning (10am) when she delivers the opening keynote at the Organisation’s 2023 conference at ... More >>
NZNO Supports Senior Doctors On Strike Today
Tuesday, 5 September 2023, 11:25 am | NZNO
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa (NZNO) supports the senior doctors and dentists on strike today for wage increases that reflect real rises in the cost of living. NZNO President Anne Daniels said asking ... More >>
NZNO’s Te Whatu Ora Nurses Accept Offer In Close Vote
Monday, 7 August 2023, 1:46 pm | NZNO
In a ballot closing at noon today, members of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa (NZNO) voted to accept the latest collective agreement proposed settlement from Te Whatu Ora. As a result a 24-hour strike by ... More >>
Nurses Vote To Accept Proposed Pay Equity Agreement
Monday, 31 July 2023, 2:31 pm | NZNO
In an historic ballot, which closed at noon today, nurses, health care assistants and kaimahi hauora covered by the Nursing Pay Equity claim voted overwhelmingly to accept a proposed settlement. Those voting included members of the New Zealand Nurses ... More >>
Decisive Strike Vote By NZNO Te Whatu Ora Members
Wednesday, 19 July 2023, 2:38 pm | NZNO
Members of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa (NZNO), who are employed by Te Whatu Ora, have voted overwhelmingly in support of a 24-hour strike on 9-10 August. NZNO Chief Executive Paul Goulter says the strike ... More >>
Ethnicity Wait List Criterion Will Help Secure Just Health Outcomes Says NZNO
Tuesday, 20 June 2023, 2:53 pm | NZNO
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa (NZNO) says it supports ethnicity being part of the logarithmically derived Equity Adjustor Score currently applied to decisions over surgical wait times in Auckland. NZNO Kaiwhakahaere ... More >>
Nominations Invited For Māori Nurse Awards
Wednesday, 31 May 2023, 12:44 pm | NZNO
Te Rūnanga o Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa (NZNO) is urging Māori nurses to throw their hats into the ring for the sixth annual Pharmac Tapuhi Kaitiaki Awards. The awards are sponsored by Pharmac and were first held in 2018. They recognise the ... More >>
New General Practice Wage Funding Welcome Move In Right Direction - NZNO
Wednesday, 24 May 2023, 2:37 pm | NZNO
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa (NZNO) welcomes today’s announcement by Health Minister Ayesha Verrall that general practice, community and other nurses outside of Te Whatu Ora will be included in new funding ... More >>