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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 >>
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 >>
