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Exasperated Muriwai Ward Nurses Strike Again Over Unsafe Staffing
Sunday, 20 September 2026, 7:45 pm | NZNO
Tomorrow will be the second strike this year over patient safety. More >>
Whanganui Hospital ED Averaged 680% Capacity Over A Week
Sunday, 20 September 2026, 3:34 pm | NZNO
Whanganui Hospital ED delegate and nurse Kathryn Fleming says the root cause of problems in health care is underfunding, which leads to short-staffing, declining infrastructure maintenance, and failure to retain frustrated staff. More >>
NZNO Members Vote To Accept Te Whatu Ora Offer
Friday, 15 May 2026, 6:24 pm | NZNO
Dawn Barrett says the bargaining team thanks all NZNO members who participated in the extended 20 months of bargaining. More >>
Government’s Decision To Scrap Fees Free Scheme Will Lead To Further Student Exodus
Monday, 11 May 2026, 5:27 pm | NZNO
Speaking for nursing students, we need to keep home-grown nursing tauira in Aotearoa New Zealand. We are our future nursing workforce, NZNO National Student Union co-chair Poihaere Whare says. More >>
Te Whatu Ora Must Come Clean Over New Uniforms
Monday, 30 March 2026, 5:17 pm | NZNO
Te Whatu Ora should reveal how much the new uniforms are costing and explain why they are being prioritised over employing more nurses and health care assistants and fixing our crumbling hospitals. More >>
Hospitals And Health Workers Should Never Be Targets
Monday, 2 March 2026, 6:38 pm | NZNO
Health care workers must have the right and freedom to provide care in conflict zones. More >>
New Zealanders Say Patients At Risk Because Of Nurse Shortages
Thursday, 27 November 2025, 7:25 pm | NZNO
More than 37,500 of NZNO’s Te Whatu Ora nurses, midwives, health care assistants and kaimahi hauora are in the second week of a fortnight of strike actions to highlight unsafe staffing levels throughout the public health system. More >>
Exasperated Hospital Nurses Striking Over Chronic Short-Staffing
Monday, 28 July 2025, 4:30 pm | NZNO
Surgical hospital wards throughout New Zealand were short-staffed more than half of all day shifts last year, figures obtained by Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) show. NZNO Chief Executive Paul Goulter says ... More >>
NZNO Backs People’s Pay Equity Select Committee
Wednesday, 4 June 2025, 5:35 pm | NZNO
NZNO Primary Health Care Nurses College chair Tracey Morgan says it was devastating to the 5000 primary health care members that their claim was scuppered without warning or legitimate reason. More >>
NZNO Care And Support Workers At Parliament For Budget Day
Wednesday, 21 May 2025, 4:52 pm | NZNO
NZNO care and support delegate Tash Greig says care and support workers were devastated by the changes. More >>
Funding Primary Care Nurses The Answer To The Health Crisis
Tuesday, 20 May 2025, 4:38 pm | NZNO
NZNO chief executive Paul Goulter says after recent wage rounds come into effect in July, most primary and community care nurse will still earn an average of 10% or $10,129 less a year than their hospital counterparts. More >>
Government Must Commit To Pay Equity For Funded Health Sector: NZNO
Sunday, 18 May 2025, 5:59 pm | NZNO
NZNO Primary Health Care Nurses College chair Tracey Morgan says the scrapping of the primary and community health care claim was devastating to nurses in the sector. More >>
Yet More Government Health Plans And Priorities: NZNO
Friday, 7 March 2025, 6:15 pm | NZNO
NZNO Kaiwhakahaere Kerri Nuku says the Minister’s acknowledgement of the issues facing the health system is good for patients and health care workers. More >>
Primary And Community Care Will Remain In Crisis Until Nurses Receive Pay Parity
Monday, 3 March 2025, 8:53 pm | NZNO
NZNO College of Primary Health Care Nurses chair Tracey Morgan says the funding gives health care providers outside hospitals a temporary reprieve from the financially crippling co-payment system. More >>
Scaled-back New Dunedin Hospital Puts Cost-cutting Before Health
Friday, 31 January 2025, 2:40 pm | NZNO
NZNO President and emergency nurse Anne Daniels says today’s announcement fails to future-proof the health needs of the Southern community. More >>
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 >>
