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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 >>
Nurses from all over the Pacific gather
Sunday, 14 November 2010, 11:49 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
More than 300 nursing leaders from 12 Pacific nations will gather in Auckland on Monday (November 8) for the opening of the 15th biennial South Pacific Nurses’ Forum (SPNF), last held in New Zealand in 1992. More >>
South Island neurosurgery service success
Wednesday, 10 November 2010, 2:23 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) congratulates the South Island Neurosurgery Expert Panel for its holistic solution to keeping safe, high quality and sustainable neurosurgery services for all South Islanders. More >>
New graduates needed for future nursing workforce
Tuesday, 2 November 2010, 10:41 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) believes new nursing graduates need to be employed to ensure the future of the nursing workforce. More >>
Govt sells off workers’ rights to big business
Friday, 29 October 2010, 4:45 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) is extremely concerned that the Government has sold off the rights of New Zealand workers to big business. Legislation passed in parliament today makes all those who work for the film industry contractors rather ... More >>
Māori hauora present taonga to Minister Turia
Friday, 22 October 2010, 10:39 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses organisation (NZNO) and Te Runanga o Aotearoa NZNO today presented Associate Minister of Health, Tariana Turia with a special taonga made by nurses and health care workers from all around the country. More >>
Nurses support Minister’s statement on unions
Thursday, 21 October 2010, 4:58 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) supports Health Minister, Tony Ryall’s statement that he will not reconsider the rights of health unions to take strike action. He has said that laws allowing medical workers to take strike action will ... More >>
