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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 >>
Work is less fair from tomorrow
Thursday, 31 March 2011, 4:42 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
New laws that allow employers to sack any worker in their first 90 days in a job, without any reason and without the right of appeal, and limit union access to worksites come into force tomorrow. The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) and Service ... More >>
Government must get tough on alcohol abuse
Wednesday, 9 March 2011, 3:06 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO), Māori nurses, emergency nurses and mental health nurses have all called on the government to get much tougher on New Zealand’s “disastrous drinking culture”. Speaking on the Alcohol Reform Bill at the Justice ... More >>
Cancer nurses can help reduce workforce stress
Thursday, 17 February 2011, 10:46 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Cancer nurses have endorsed associate professor John Carter’s call for greater use of nurse practitioners (NP) in cancer care. More >>
NZNO slams privatisation agenda
Tuesday, 8 February 2011, 5:23 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) believes the Prime Minister’s speech to Parliament today (February 8) is a thinly veiled agenda for privatisation and cuts to services. More >>
Nurses Organisation congratulates Horowhenua health clinic
Thursday, 3 February 2011, 12:11 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) sends it congratulations to Horowhenua’s newest health clinic, the “Waiting-List Clinic”, which opens its door today. Central Primary Health Organisation (PHO) clinical director and director of nursing ... More >>
Tax cuts, GST increase threaten health of lowest earners
Monday, 22 November 2010, 5:16 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
A poll revealing that most New Zealanders feel worse off following the tax cuts introduced on October 1, does not bode well for the health of the country’s most vulnerable, according to NZNO. More >>
Preventing serious and sentinel events
Wednesday, 17 November 2010, 4:25 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The Serious and Sentinel Events Report released today (November 17) demonstrates, yet again, that having enough appropriately skilled staff to provide safe care, is crucial in preventing patients dying or suffering a serious disability while in hospital, ... More >>
