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Workforce Issues Not New to Nursing
Thursday, 12 June 2008, 1:25 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Figures showing gaps in New Zealand’s nursing workforce are not news to members of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation, which has been lobbying successive Governments to implement Safe Staffing initiatives for years, says Chief Executive Geoff Annals. More >>
Pay Parity Necessary for Mâori and Iwi
Wednesday, 28 May 2008, 5:23 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Mâori and Iwi Primary Health Care workers and employers are united today in their call for Parliament to provide the funding required to deliver pay parity with health care workers working for District Health Boards. More >>
Need to Provide Ongoing Education
Tuesday, 27 May 2008, 3:34 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses' Organisation welcomes today's Morning Report discussion on palliative care in residential aged care settings. More >>
Good Employers Reap the Rewards
Friday, 23 May 2008, 1:47 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Auckland’s religious and welfare based Aged Care providers are showing the way forward for industrial relations in the sector, fostering a respectful and productive relationship with their workforce that has resulted in enviable staff retention rates, ... More >>
Healthcare Investment Must Deliver Safe Care
Friday, 23 May 2008, 9:49 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation welcomes today’s Budget announcement of additional funding streams for the health sector. As well as an extra $750 million per annum going to DHBs to enhance the delivery of health services, the Government has included: More >>
Nurse Practitioner Skills Wasted
Friday, 11 April 2008, 10:16 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Nurse Practitioners’ skills, knowledge and experience continue to be under-utilised, unnecessarily hindering health care accessibility issues in New Zealand. More >>
NZNO backs Health and Disability report
Wednesday, 27 February 2008, 9:22 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
NZNO is heartened by the consistent and firm approach taken by Health and Disability Commissioner Ron Paterson in documenting the faulty ways some district health board (DHBs) have managed their staffing resources. More >>
Nurses Support Nationwide Hospital Safety System
Wednesday, 20 February 2008, 9:20 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The Minister of Health’s Quality Improvement Committee should take the lead in urgently initiating a national system to collect and analyse data on incidents and sentinel events in New Zealand’s public health system, says the New Zealand Nurses ... More >>
Maori and Iwi Health Care Workers Want Pay Parity
Friday, 21 December 2007, 11:32 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Maori and Iwi Primary Health Care workers launched a petition today calling on Parliament to provide the funding required to achieve pay parity with their counterparts working in public hospitals. More >>
Collectivised Nursing Workforce Now 40,000 Strong
Tuesday, 18 December 2007, 8:42 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
New Zealand’s nurses, midwives and caregivers are stronger than ever as membership of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation passes 40,000 for the first time. More >>
Aged Care Workers Winning as One
Thursday, 13 December 2007, 10:27 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Today the New Zealand Nurses Organisation and Service and Food Workers Union have jointly initiated bargaining for a multi-employer collective agreement (MECA) with over 200 aged care providers across the country. More >>
Public Can Trust Nurses to Keep Them Safe
Thursday, 6 December 2007, 9:58 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
While the headlines continue to report serious failings in Wellington Hospital’s safety systems, the public can be assured that nurses are doing everything possible to keep them safe. NZNO President Marion Guy, an experienced emergency nurse, assured ... More >>
Capital and Coast. Keep Your District Nurses!
Wednesday, 28 November 2007, 10:19 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
District Nurses call on Capital and Coast District Health Board to listen to its staff and community and pull back from plans to foist privatisation upon the region’s community nursing service. More >>
Bringing Tikanga to Industrial Relations
Tuesday, 27 November 2007, 11:00 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
A unique event in New Zealand’s industrial relations history gets underway today with the opening of bargaining for a Multi-Employer Collective Agreement (MECA) between the New Zealand Nurses Organisation and 60 Maori and Iwi primary health care providers. More >>
Workers Wait for Wage Rise
Sunday, 25 November 2007, 2:12 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The thumping $34.7 million half-yearly profit announced with fanfare by Ryman Healthcare this morning reveals the truth behind Healthcare Providers New Zealand’s war on workers’ wages that saw Aged Care employers take District Health Boards to court ... More >>
Where Are Taxpayer Dollars Going in Aged Care?
Monday, 19 November 2007, 3:43 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Today’s Judicial Review of DHB contracts with privatised Aged Care providers is a shameful attack on the Government’s attempts to bring accountability and transparency to the sector. More >>
NZNO Looks Forward To Positive Relationship
Wednesday, 31 October 2007, 4:05 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation acknowledges outgoing Minister of Health Pete Hodgson and welcomes David Cunliffe to this important portfolio. More >>
Aged Care Workers’ Wages Withheld
Thursday, 18 October 2007, 10:31 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Anglican Aged Care in Christchurch refuses to offer its staff the minimum pay increases required by the District Health Board despite receiving additional funding tagged for relieving the chronic low pay in the sector. More >>
GP Fee Hoopla Overlooks Nurses’ Potential
Monday, 8 October 2007, 12:35 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The attention on Primary Health Care generated by last week’s release of both the National Party’s Health Discussion Paper and the report on the Primary Health Care Strategy Evaluation overlooks the potential for nurses to have a much greater role ... More >>
GP Fee Hoopla Overlooks Nurses’ Potential
Thursday, 4 October 2007, 9:27 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The attention on Primary Health Care generated by last week’s release of both the National Party’s Health Discussion Paper and the report on the Primary Health Care Strategy Evaluation overlooks the potential for nurses to have a much greater role ... More >>
