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Nurses welcome Housing Affordability report
Friday, 16 December 2011, 12:45 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Media release 16 December 2011 Nurses welcome Housing Affordability report The New Zealand Nurses Organisation supports the findings of the Productivity Commission’s Housing Affordability report that was released today. The report concludes that home ... More >>
Māori Party knows what’s needed in primary health care
Thursday, 24 November 2011, 2:58 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) are delighted to see that a key platform of its manifesto on pay equity for health workers in Māori and Iwi health providers has been taken up by the Māori party. More >>
Labour gets health priorities just right, say nurses
Wednesday, 9 November 2011, 11:12 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) welcomes the release of the Labour Party’s health policy signalling better utilisation of the nursing workforce. The policy aligns closely with NZNO’s manifesto for the health of all New Zealanders and takes ... More >>
Aged Care Association doesn’t support quality aged care
Friday, 30 September 2011, 3:40 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) says that Martin Taylor and the New Zealand Aged Care Association (NZACA) are misleading New Zealanders when they say more beds are all that’s needed to fix the crisis in rest homes and aged care hospitals. More >>
Politicians Must Act to Provide Quality Care for Older NZers
Wednesday, 28 September 2011, 5:12 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) and the Service and Food Workers Union Nga Ringa Tota (SFWU) will be presenting over ten thousand signed charters to politicians on the parliamentary forecourt tomorrow at 12 noon. More >>
Nurses welcome Labour’s commitment to pay equity
Monday, 19 September 2011, 1:26 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) welcomes the release of the Labour Party’s Women’s policy today. The policy outlines Labour’s solutions for equality, opportunity and choice for all women, including closing the gender pay gap, eliminating violence ... More >>
Stop supporting voluntary student membership, nurses urge
Wednesday, 17 August 2011, 1:10 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) is urging the Government to stop supporting the ACT Party’s Bill that would end universal membership of students’ associations. More >>
Workers in aged care sector deserve more
Monday, 8 August 2011, 9:23 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) and the Service and Food Workers Union: Ngā Ringa Tota (SFWU) are preparing to go into negotiations next week with the two biggest residential aged care providers in New Zealand, Oceania and Bupa. NZNO and ... More >>
Extra funding towards healthy workplaces welcomed by nurses
Tuesday, 26 July 2011, 1:15 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) welcomes the Health Minister’s announcement today of an extra $800,000 over two years to support the implementation of Care Capacity Demand Management programmes in DHBs. More >>
Celebrating enrolled nurses
Wednesday, 29 June 2011, 4:46 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) is celebrating national Enrolled Nurses Day tomorrow (30 June). More >>
Pay equity a step closer with new member’s bill
Wednesday, 22 June 2011, 3:58 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) welcomes a bill, launched in Parliament today, that will allow employees to have access to wage and salary information. More >>
Nurses Support Mental Health Workers March Against Violence
Tuesday, 21 June 2011, 2:27 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation supports the protest by PSA members working in mental health units across the Auckland region. PSA members are staging a protest in support of workers at the Auckland DHB’s, Te Whetu Tawera Mental Health facility More >>
Health professionals say Pharmac must stay
Monday, 20 June 2011, 1:38 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Multi-national drug companies must not be able to jeopardise Pharmac’s great work say a raft of health professional groups, including the New Zealand Nurses Organisation, the Royal New Zealand College of GPs, the College of Midwives, the Association of ... More >>
Health organisations oppose any change to Pharmac
Wednesday, 1 June 2011, 4:06 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
A wide range of New Zealand health professional organisations have voiced their opposition to any changes to current intellectual property and patent provisions concerning medicines being included in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) New Zealand ... More >>
No highlights in today’s Budget
Thursday, 19 May 2011, 4:39 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) believes today’s budget will widen the gap between rich and poor in New Zealand. “Already, one in four New Zealand children live in poverty. This zero budget means more New Zealand children will fall below ... More >>
It’s never ok to turn people away
Wednesday, 11 May 2011, 4:37 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) and the College of Emergency Nurses are very concerned to hear comments made by Dr Branko Sijnja that emergency departments should “start turning people away if they turn up at the emergency department with ... More >>
Nurses must address health inequities
Wednesday, 11 May 2011, 2:26 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Closing the gap: increasing access and equity in health is the theme for International Nurses Day tomorrow 12 May – Florence Nightingale’s birthday. New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) president Nano Tunnicliff said the links between poverty and ... More >>
Extra funding for maternity services – but where from?
Thursday, 5 May 2011, 4:38 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) welcomes the Government’s announcement that an extra $32 million is being spent on maternity services. More >>
Access to good midwifery care essential
Wednesday, 4 May 2011, 10:05 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Access to good midwifery care essential for infant well-being The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) celebrates International Day of the Midwife tomorrow (5 May). Over 340,000 women worldwide die each year, with millions more suffering infection ... More >>
Law change will have little impact on child abuse
Wednesday, 13 April 2011, 1:26 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses’ Organisation (NZNO) acknowledges the Government’s concern about child abuse, with its proposed legislation creating a new offence for failing to protect a child or vulnerable adult. But NZNO believes the Government’s proposals ... More >>
