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Care Rationing In New Zealand Hospitals a Cause For Concern
Wednesday, 28 August 2013, 1:05 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Recent media reports highlighting ‘care rationing’ in two New Zealand hospitals are a cause for concern but not a surprise for the New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO). NZNO believes the practice is widespread as DHBs and the nursing team are ... More >>
Newly elected board for Nurses Organisation
Tuesday, 27 August 2013, 4:54 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) Kaiwhakahaere, Kerri Nuku and President, Marion Guy are pleased to welcome newly elected directors to its board. More >>
Nurses welcome extension of General Medical Subsidy
Tuesday, 6 August 2013, 10:59 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) welcomes the Government’s announcement that the General Medical Subsidy (GMS) will be extended to nurses and nurse practitioners. Pharmacists will also become eligible for the subsidy. The General Medical Subsidy ... More >>
Nurses unfairly blamed for systemic failures
Thursday, 1 August 2013, 1:03 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) is extremely disappointed and disturbed that Rymans is publically blaming nurses for failure of care in their Malvina Major facility in Wellington. More >>
Employment Changes Are Bad Medicine For New Zealanders
Thursday, 6 June 2013, 9:21 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) is disappointed that a Bill that will remove important pay and condition protections for working New Zealanders passed its first reading last night. More >>
NZNO supports nurses in low-decile schools
Sunday, 2 June 2013, 4:27 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
NZNO strongly endorses the Green Party’s $30 million plan, announced in Christchurch today, to put a nurse in every low decile school in the country, as part of its strategy to eliminate child poverty. More >>
Nurses Celebrate International Nurses Day
Friday, 10 May 2013, 3:04 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Nurses all around the country are preparing to celebrate International Nurses Day on Sunday 12 May. This year’s theme is Closing the Gap: the Millennium Development Goals: 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, which are internationally recognised health related ... More >>
NZNO celebrates International Day of the Midwife
Friday, 3 May 2013, 1:41 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) celebrates International Day of the Midwife on Sunday 5 May. NZNO is proud to represent over 650 New Zealand midwives who support thousands of women every year through pregnancy and birth. More >>
Nurses join fight for Wairau hospital
Friday, 8 March 2013, 1:39 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) is joining the residents of Blenheim as they fight for health services to remain in the area. The Nelson Marlborough District Health Board review of services at Wairau Hospital could result in only elective ... More >>
Focus on health targets not the answer to healthy population
Sunday, 3 March 2013, 11:57 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation is concerned that Government health targets plus demands to cut millions of dollars from their budgets is forcing DHBs to narrow their focus and sideline health equity for the populations they serve. More >>
DHB decision-making in times of scarcity and its impact
Friday, 22 February 2013, 1:58 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
In mid 2012 Professor Don Matheson was asked by a community group to assist them in understanding why the primary health care service they were using was having its funding reduced. More >>
Government response to issues in aged care patronising
Tuesday, 19 February 2013, 2:57 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The Health Select Committee has released its report on the New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) and Service and Food Workers Union Nga Ringa Tota (SFWU) petition calling for proper funding of the aged care sector. More >>
New President For Country’s Largest Nursing Organisation
Thursday, 24 January 2013, 3:52 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The country’s largest nursing organisation, the New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO), has a new president, Tauranga-based practice nurse Marion Guy. She won a three-way contest to co-lead the 46,000-member professional and industrial body. More >>
Secret trade deal will affect the cost of health care in NZ
Monday, 10 December 2012, 4:10 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) is concerned that, despite the Prime Minister’s previous assurances that the fundamentals of New Zealand’s drug buying agency Pharmac would be protected during trade talks, the opposite appears to be the case. More >>
Secret trade deal will affect the cost of health care in NZ
Monday, 10 December 2012, 4:10 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) is concerned that, despite the Prime Minister’s previous assurances that the fundamentals of New Zealand’s drug buying agency Pharmac would be protected during trade talks, the opposite appears to be the case. More >>
Nursing, midwifery assns concerned about Health Workforce NZ
Thursday, 29 November 2012, 4:23 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Nursing and midwifery associations, seriously concerned about the performance of Health Workforce New Zealand (HWNZ), have identified areas in which improvement is required to restore health workforce confidence in HWNZ’s ability to meet its core ... More >>
Nore with less doesn’t cut it when patient care is at stake
Monday, 26 November 2012, 5:00 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) says that extensive discussion between unions and Waikato DHB has failed to reassure nurses and allied health staff that their work is taken seriously by the DHB. More >>
Changes to Employment Act bad news for workers
Tuesday, 30 October 2012, 5:10 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) says the Government’s announcement that it will introduce legislation before year’s end to amend the Employment Relations Act 2000 is a bad move that will be bad for workers. More >>
Government's youth health priority doesn't extend to funding
Monday, 15 October 2012, 3:41 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) is dismayed to learn of the closure of an important youth health Service. WAVES is a one stop youth health service that provides a range of health and social services to more than 3000 young people in ... More >>
Five practices to host physician assistants
Thursday, 11 October 2012, 11:06 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) strongly opposes the further recruitment of US physician assistants. NZNO professional services manager, Susanne Trim says, "We are disappointed that following a flawed and poorly evaluated 'demonstration' ... More >>
