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New Poll Shows Most New Zealanders Believe The Health System Is Broken
Monday, 17 November 2025, 5:15 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The Talbot Mills Research polled 1020 people, asking them to describe the public health system in one word. More >>
Coroner Warns Short Staffing Creating High Risk Of Catastrophic Event
Tuesday, 11 November 2025, 8:42 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Safe staffing saves lives. Aotearoa New Zealand needs nurse-to-patient ratios now and funding based on patient need, not an arbitrary cost cutting budget set by the Government. More >>
Minister Must Protect The Nursing Council
Wednesday, 5 November 2025, 2:41 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The Minister of Health must protect the integrity of the Nursing Council as the regulator for registered nurses, Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa NZNO says. The call follows an announcement by the Education Minister Erica Stanford that professional ... More >>
Lack Of Representation A Slap In The Face For Nurses
Tuesday, 4 November 2025, 6:12 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
NZNO Kaiwhakahaere Kerri Nuku says the first-person patients and whānau often deal with in primary health care is a nurse. More >>
Nurses Vote To Hold Two-Week Safe Staffing Strikes
Friday, 31 October 2025, 3:41 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Paul Goulter says workers are frustrated that after more than 30 days of bargaining with Te Whatu Ora, their concerns that short staffing is putting patient safety at risk remain unaddressed. More >>
Focus On Broken Primary Care Funding System Overdue
Tuesday, 28 October 2025, 3:57 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The Labour Party today announced a policy to provide all New Zealanders three free GP visits a year, funded through the introduction of a capital gains tax on property. More >>
Historic Strikes To Save Our Essential Public Services
Friday, 17 October 2025, 1:43 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Essential public service workers including teachers, doctors, principals, nurses, allied health workers, home support workers, school support staff, policy, advisory & specialist workers, Ministry of Education field staff will hold strikes on 23 Oct More >>
New Report Finds Broken Aged Care Sector Harming Our Elderly
Monday, 13 October 2025, 10:19 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
NZNO Age Safe committee co-chair and health care assistant (kaiāwhina) Brianna Dynes says residents are missing out on the most basic care because there isn’t enough staff to go around. More >>
Te Whatu Ora Nurses, Midwives, Health Care Assistants And Kaimahi Hauora Vote To Strike On 23 October
Friday, 3 October 2025, 2:52 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa NZNO members today voted to hold a four-hour strike from 11am to 3pm on Thursday 23 October. More >>
Iwi And Māori Providers Struggling To Retain Nurses
Wednesday, 17 September 2025, 7:03 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
To keep up with projected growth of the Māori population, the number of nurses working for Iwi and Māori providers would need to rise from 551 FTEs to 679, a rise of 128. More >>
Cancer, Heart And Trauma Patients Face The Most Understaffed Wards
Wednesday, 17 September 2025, 7:00 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
NZNO President Anne Daniels says cancer and cardiovascular wards were the most understaffed with 49% of all shifts (page 25, table 10) having inadequate staffing to meet safe staffing requirements set out under the Care Capacity Demand Management programme. More >>
Hospitals Short 587 Nurses Every Shift Last Year, New Report Finds
Wednesday, 17 September 2025, 6:57 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
With 592 hospital wards and emergency departments throughout the country, Te Whatu Ora’s own data - which they fought to keep secret - shows that almost every ward, every shift is short-staffed More >>
Te Whatu Ora Sorry For Evading Safe Staffing Data Contradicting Its Claims
Wednesday, 3 September 2025, 3:28 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The apology follows an investigation by the Ombudsman which found Te Whatu Ora "unreasonably" delayed and obstructed the release of data about hospital shifts being staffed below recommended safety levels. More >>
Battle For Patient Safety Continues With More Nurses Strikes
Monday, 1 September 2025, 9:45 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
More than 36,000 Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) nurses, midwives, health care assistants and kaimahi hauora will walk off the job from 7am to 11pm on Tuesday and Thursday. More >>
Te Whatu Ora Nurses Begin Local Strikes On Monday
Friday, 15 August 2025, 4:55 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
NZNO delegate and District Nurse Lesley Pook says North Shore District Nursing Service nurses will begin a week-long "uniform strike" on Monday 18 August. More >>
Five Times More Māori Nurses Needed To Reflect Population
Thursday, 14 August 2025, 12:58 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The report "Growing, but not fast enough: Māori nursing workforce insights" was written by economic consultancy company Infometrics and released at the Indigenous Nurses Aotearoa Conference in Rotorua tomorrow - Thursday - when about 300 Māori ... More >>
Three Christchurch Hospital Wards Down Tools For Two Hours Over Safe Staffing
Thursday, 14 August 2025, 11:28 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
If the Coalition Government is as committed to patient safety as it claims, it will ensure they are not under-staffed, under-resourced and overworked," Gayl Marryatt says. More >>
Te Whatu Ora Nurses Vote For Further Strikes
Wednesday, 13 August 2025, 3:39 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
NZNO Chief Executive Paul Goulter says the Te Whatu Ora members voted strongly to go on strike on two days from 7am to 11pm on Tuesday 2 September and Thursday 4 September. More >>
Fed-Up Hospital Nurses Striking Today Over Chronic Short-Staffing
Wednesday, 30 July 2025, 9:01 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
NZNO Chief Executive Paul Goulter says concerns about chronic and ongoing staff shortages have been raised continually throughout the collective agreement bargaining process which began last September and has finally led to today's national strike. More >>
Nurses Strike To Go Ahead After Failure To Agree To Safe Staffing Recruitment Again
Tuesday, 29 July 2025, 11:37 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Eleventh hour mediation was held yesterday between Te Whatu Ora and Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO). More >>
