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NZNO disappointed at Bills failure
Tuesday, 17 July 2007, 12:06 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
NZNO is disappointed at the fate of the Australia New Zealand Therapeutic Products and Medicines Bill, now on hold after the Government failed to get the numbers to support the Bill. More >>
NZNO congratulates Hutt Valley DHB
Wednesday, 27 June 2007, 5:17 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
NZNO congratulates Hutt Valley District Health Board (DHB) on winning magnet hospital status. “We congratulate all the nursing staff and other health care staff at Hutt on achieving magnet status. It has been a long and exhaustive process which has revealed ... More >>
Aged Care Workforce Highlights Staff Shortages
Thursday, 21 June 2007, 9:42 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Members of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation working in residential aged care have chosen today, the shortest day of the year, to highlight continued staffing shortages in aged care facilities. More >>
Collective bargaining only way to solve pay crisis
Tuesday, 29 May 2007, 5:11 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
“The Government’s linking of funding for the aged the aged care workforce with collective bargaining is the only way to genuinely solve the low pay crisis across the sector,” said New Zealand Nurses Organisation organising service manager Cee ... More >>
Nurses Day: A Commitment to Quality Healthcare
Friday, 11 May 2007, 1:00 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Tomorrow is International Nurses Day which is celebrated every year on May 12, the anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s birth. The New Zealand Nurses Organisation is proud to take part in the celebration of this year’s theme, Positive Practice ... More >>
Nurses Campaign for Traditional Kiwi Values
Monday, 7 May 2007, 4:56 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Members of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation are asking Kiwis to draw on their traditional sense of Fair Play and support the campaign for better working conditions and safer hospitals. More >>
Funding Mechanism Clearly Still Required
Wednesday, 2 May 2007, 1:46 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Attempts by HealthCare Providers New Zealand today to downplay the potential for wage increases in the Aged Care sector are the clearest sign yet that a mechanism is required to ensure taxpayer dollars invested into Aged Care end up going to working ... More >>
Campaigning Pays Off for Aged Care Workers
Wednesday, 2 May 2007, 12:03 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Unionised Aged Care workers have plenty to celebrate today as a May Day funding announcement by the Minister of Health Pete Hodgson gives a much needed cash injection to the most neglected and under-valued sector of the New Zealand health system. More >>
Statement from Geoff Annals re Michael Bassett
Friday, 27 April 2007, 1:06 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
In 1982, then National Government Minister of Health, Aussie Malcolm, rejected nurses' claims for fair pay saying if he paid nurses more he would have to deny "the public of needed beds or of renal dialysis or cardiac surgery." More >>
Impending Nursing Shortage Must Be Addressed
Monday, 23 April 2007, 1:29 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The challenges facing our nation’s nursing workforce, raised on this morning’s Nine to Noon programme on Radio New Zealand National by Dr Annette Huntington of Massey University, are exactly the issues the New Zealand Nurses Organisation seeks ... More >>
Safe Staffing Vital to Providing Essential Care
Thursday, 12 April 2007, 1:18 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
District Health Boards have received a timely and necessary wake up call that Safe Staffing must be prioritised if failures to ensure patient safety recently identified at Wellington Hospital are to be addressed. More >>
Consultation Crucial on District Nursing
Monday, 2 April 2007, 5:02 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
New Zealand’s District Nurses are anxious that potential service changes could undermine their ability to continue developing new services that respond to community need. More >>
Laboratory Decision Welcome
Wednesday, 21 March 2007, 3:03 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation welcomes the outcome of the judicial review regarding Auckland community laboratory services. NZNO has consistently opposed the Auckland Regional DHBs’ decision to award the contract to Labtests Auckland Ltd. More >>
Poorest Hit Hardest By Nursing Shortage
Tuesday, 20 March 2007, 10:11 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
New Zealand is contributing to a healthcare crisis in developing countries by relying on the stretched global nursing and midwifery workforce to deliver health services to Kiwis. More >>
Historic Meeting of Minds
Wednesday, 7 March 2007, 11:26 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
A rare congregation of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO), the College of Nurses Aotearoa and the Ministry of Health is working together to progress initiatives in the care of people with chronic conditions. More >>
Delivery Key to Raising Aged Care out of Poverty
Wednesday, 21 February 2007, 2:33 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Health Minister Pete Hodgson’s re-iteration that the 2007 Budget will increase Aged Care funding is meaningless without a mechanism to deliver that funding where it is needed most, according to the New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO). More >>
Student Loan Rules Deprive NZ of Skilled Nurses
Wednesday, 7 February 2007, 9:26 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Hundreds of qualified nurses could be excluded from practicing as a result of student loan eligibility rules, according to the New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO). More >>
Palliative Care Funding Should Deliver Pay Parity
Thursday, 21 December 2006, 3:53 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
NZNO welcomes the announcement by Health Minister Pete Hodgson that an additional $4.7 million in funding will be available for palliative care providers. More >>
Unions Deliver Early Xmas Present for Aged Care
Wednesday, 20 December 2006, 11:22 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Members of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) and Service and Food Workers Union (SFWU) working for Guardian Healthcare Group (GHG) are celebrating Christmas a little early this year. After over two-and-a-half years’ negotiations, union ... More >>
Nurses Pleased with Plunketline Support
Monday, 18 December 2006, 2:23 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation is pleased with the recommendation made late last week by the Health Select Committee to restore Government funding for Plunketline. More >>
