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Plunket Funding Coalition Promise Forgotten In Budget 26
Friday, 29 May 2026, 11:39 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa NZNO national delegate and Plunket nurse Hannah Cook says Budget 26 papers show the promise was an outstanding commitment between the National and NZ First parties from their 2023 coalition agreement. More >>
Budget 26 Robs Pita To Pay Paul: NZNO
Thursday, 28 May 2026, 4:17 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa NZNO Kaiwhakahaere Kerri Nuku says Budget 26 is a "money go-round" which requires the health sector to do even more with even less. More >>
Bupa Nurses Take Pay Equity Claim Over Historic Wage Discrimination
Thursday, 21 May 2026, 10:20 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa NZNO has more than 380 registered nurse members working at Bupa’s 40 aged residential care homes across the country. More >>
Lakes And Whanganui Nurses Still Waiting For Holiday Pay A Decade On
Thursday, 14 May 2026, 9:57 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Lakes delegate and Rotorua Hospital nurse Lyn Logan says Te Whatu Ora needs to prioritise this work so workers can get their payments faster. More >>
Culture Of Fear At Understaffed, Dilapidated Hillmorton Hospital
Monday, 11 May 2026, 10:44 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
NZNO delegate and Hillmorton nurse Gabrielle Nolan says NZNO Hillmorton members are calling for Te Whatu Ora to address the issues raised in the survey. More >>
A Year After Pay Equity Gutted, Hardworking Nurses Even Worse Off
Wednesday, 6 May 2026, 8:58 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa NZNO last September became the first organisation to file claims under the new system, despite the almost impossibly high thresholds required. More >>
Hands Around The Hospital And School To Mark International Workers' Day
Wednesday, 29 April 2026, 3:19 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
In Wellington, nurses, teachers, students and whānau will be joining hands from Newtown School to Wellington Regional Hospital to show their support for essential workers. More >>
Heartbreaking Tragedies Were Avoidable
Wednesday, 29 April 2026, 1:15 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The analysis by Stuff into the deaths which date back to 2016 also found staffing issues were identified in a further five cases in which the babies survived but had to be resuscitated and suffered lifelong injuries and disabilities. More >>
NZNO Members To Consider New Offer From Te Whatu Ora
Thursday, 23 April 2026, 6:05 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The NZNO bargaining team will spend the next few weeks speaking with members about the details of the offer, NZNO Chief Executive Paul Goulter says. More >>
Government’s Attack On Māori Health Raised At The UN
Wednesday, 22 April 2026, 5:06 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Kerri Nuku said Māori continued to face ongoing systemic racism over their rights to health, equity and self-determination. More >>
Summerset Avonhead & Cavendish Staff Picket Over Proposed Cuts
Monday, 20 April 2026, 9:43 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
If the proposed cuts go ahead, many caregivers will lose working hours and face significant changes to their shift patterns. More >>
Chronic Health Care Assistant Short Staffing Harming Vulnerable Patients
Friday, 10 April 2026, 8:01 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
NZNO delegate and Auckland health care assistant Anamei Graham says understaffing means health care assistants are constantly forced to prioritise their tasks. More >>
NZNO Apologises For Abuses In State Care
Tuesday, 24 March 2026, 10:49 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The apology was made in a video by NZNO Kaiwhakahaere Kerri Nuku and published today on the organisation’s website. It has already been shared with survivors and their whānau. More >>
ACT Should Leave Nursing To Professionals And Medical Evidence
Monday, 23 March 2026, 2:56 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Without culturally safe health care, Māori will continue to suffer poorer health outcomes and lead sicker and shorter lives than other New Zealanders. More >>
Additional Winter Health Care Workers A Drop In The Ocean Of Need
Tuesday, 17 March 2026, 1:41 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
"The capacity for hospitals to meet patient need has been severely depleted after two years of Government cost-cutting and funding to an arbitrary budget." More >>
Questions Over Dilapidated And Cramped Renal Unit Forced To Ration Dialysis
Saturday, 7 March 2026, 3:43 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
"Simeon Brown claims to put patients first and values nurses. If this is true, he should listen to health workers rather than manage the public health sector based on the 6pm television news bulletin," Paul Goulter says. More >>
Go Purple For Pay Equity This Friday
Wednesday, 4 March 2026, 3:51 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The Go Purple day is in recognition of International Women’s Day on Sunday. The NZNO members will be joined by members from other frontline public service unions. More >>
Te Whatu Ora’s Embarrassing U-Turn Over Proposed Car Park Plan
Thursday, 12 February 2026, 5:14 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa NZNO delegate and Christchurch health care assistant Al Dietschin says NZNO members were angered they weren’t consulted on the draft policy. More >>
NZNO Disgusted By Nurse’s Killing In The US
Monday, 26 January 2026, 6:31 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
We are calling for an immediate stop to ICE’s aggressive and murderous tactics in the US, says Kaiwhakahaere Kerri Nuku. More >>
Not So Festive For ED Nurses, Survey Reveals
Wednesday, 14 January 2026, 10:06 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Nurses constantly raise concerns about the link between patients’ frustrations which lead to abusive behaviour and short staffing in EDs. This survey further highlights the correlation between under-staffing and unsafe staffing. More >>
