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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 >>
Over Half Of Mid-Year Nursing Graduates Miss Out On Jobs
Friday, 25 July 2025, 12:13 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
About 36,000 of NZNO’s Te Whatu Ora members are preparing for a 24-hour national strike next Wednesday 30 July after Collective Agreement negotiations stalled with a refusal by Health NZ to commit to its obligation to employ new graduates one of ... More >>
Review Highlights Under-Staffing At Nelson Hospital
Wednesday, 23 July 2025, 4:41 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The Nelson Marlborough Clinical Quality and Systems Review carried out by Te Whatu Ora was released this afternoon and has found serious issues with the management and development of the nursing workforce at Nelson Hospital. More >>
Hospital Nurses To Take Nationwide Strike Action
Friday, 11 July 2025, 2:05 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The strike will be a complete withdrawal of labour at every place in New Zealand where Te Whatu Ora provides health care or hospital care services. More >>
Government Must Save Tōtara Hospice: NZNO
Wednesday, 9 July 2025, 4:17 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Totara Hospice provides end-of-life care at no direct cost to patients from a diverse and growing community of around 520,000 South Aucklanders and is the subject of a new documentary series called Hospice Heroes. More >>
NZNO Welcomes Te Whatu Ora Backdown On Wellington Maternity Services
Tuesday, 8 July 2025, 5:57 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
"It's good that Te Whatu Ora listened to health care workers on matters such as this. However, it still doesn't address staffing issues for midwives and nurses," NZNO Chief Executive Paul Goulter says. More >>
Te Whatu Ora Offer Further Devalues Māori
Tuesday, 8 July 2025, 4:33 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
NZNO has been involved in protracted talks with Te Whatu Ora for months. The new offer from Te Whatu Ora to NZNO members on 30 June failed to include Tikanga Allowance and Kaupapa Māori dispute resolution process clauses. More >>
Already Short-Staffed Wellington Hospital Gynaecology Ward Losing Beds
Monday, 7 July 2025, 4:55 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
"NZNO is concerned this trail is aimed at meeting the Coalition Government’s arbitrary and unfunded six-hour wait time target for EDs," NZNO delegate Michelle Cotton says. More >>
Nursing Students Ready To Walk
Friday, 4 July 2025, 1:58 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The survey was completed by 1246 nursing students, and NZNO National Student Unit Co-chair Bianca Grimmer said the results were crystal clear - "hire us or we will leave". More >>
Te Whatu Ora Refuses To Address Patient Safety Concerns
Friday, 4 July 2025, 12:02 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
A new offer from Te Whatu Ora to NZNO members has failed to include measures to address staffing concerns despite it being raised continually throughout the bargaining process. More >>
Government Must Do More To Build Public Health System Capability - NZNO
Friday, 27 June 2025, 1:15 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
NZNO Chief Executive Paul Goulter says the report confirms what the public already knows - that elective services in the public system are neither equitable nor timely. More >>
Nurses Need Share Of Primary Health Care Funding Increase
Tuesday, 24 June 2025, 11:50 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
NZNO College of Primary Care Nurses chair Tracey Morgan says nurses are urging primary care employers to pass this funding increase onto them via their wages, Tracey Morgan says. More >>
Theatre Nurses In Whangārei To Strike
Thursday, 19 June 2025, 4:29 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The New Zealand Nurses Organisation Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa (NZNO) perioperative nurses and health care assistants - from the surgical admission unit, theatre and post anaesthetic units - will undertake three rolling four-hour strikes ... More >>
Primary Care Funding Must Be Passed On To Nurses
Wednesday, 18 June 2025, 12:13 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The Government funds GP clinics based on the number of enrolled patients they have, regardless of the services they receive, through what’s called the capitation system. More >>
Auckland Theatre Nurses Begin One-Month On-Call Strike
Wednesday, 28 May 2025, 2:58 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
NZNO delegate and Starship perioperative nurse Haim Ainsworth says the month-long on-call strike follows rolling two-hour strikes by Auckland theatre nurses on 1 May. More >>
