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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 >>
Magical Thinking On Hospital Projects: NZNO
Thursday, 22 May 2025, 4:42 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
NZNO Primary Health Care Nurses College chair Tracey Morgan says the Coalition Government has "utterly failed" to address the crisis in primary and community care which is leaving New Zealanders unable to see their GPs when they need to. More >>
Assault Reignites Christchurch Hospital Parking Woes
Wednesday, 21 May 2025, 3:15 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Staff are reportedly walking to their cars because they’re made to wait 30 minutes or more after working the late shift for the shuttle to arrive. Staff don’t feel safe walking to cars after their shift or early morning in the dark, but they’re ... More >>
Hui To Further Raise Awareness On Health Woes
Tuesday, 13 May 2025, 2:17 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Every sector of the health system is crumbling around health workers’ ears. The Government is not providing adequate funding for safe staffing, and they are disguising their frontline hiring freeze. More >>
Struggling Hospice Nurses Shattered By Pay Equity Changes
Monday, 12 May 2025, 5:42 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
NZNO delegate and hospice nurse Donna Burnett says hospice nurses are demoralised and angered by last week’s announcement. More >>
Pay Equity Changes An Attack On Women: NZNO
Tuesday, 6 May 2025, 1:38 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
NZNO chief executive Paul Goulter says nurses will be outraged that historical gender discrimination will not be addressed so the Government can save money. More >>
Auckland Theatre Nurses To Strike Tomorrow
Wednesday, 30 April 2025, 3:39 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
NZNO delegate and perioperative nurse Alissa Baker says nurses are standing up against involuntary overtime. This stand is part of the current collective agreement bargaining between NZNO and Te Whatu Ora. More >>
History Shows Patients At Risk From Physician Associates
Tuesday, 29 April 2025, 5:35 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
The introduction of physician associates is an unnecessary quick and cheap fix to the doctor shortage when we have a competent and experienced nurse practitioner workforce available to do this work. More >>
Auckland Theatre Nurses Strike Over Unpaid Overtime Claim
Friday, 18 April 2025, 11:05 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
About 370 perioperative (which includes preoperative, theatre and postoperative) nurses working at Auckland City Hospital, Starship Hospital and Greenlane Clinical Centre will strike for two hours on 1 May. More >>
Nelson’s Hands-on Message To Te Whatu Ora Over Patient Safety
Friday, 11 April 2025, 1:02 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
NZNO delegate Amanda Field says the Government’s failure to adequately fund healthcare means management of Nelson Hospital is being forced to make difficult decisions that hurt both patients and staff. More >>
Nurses Call For Immediate Halt To Police Withdrawal
Friday, 11 April 2025, 9:45 am | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Phase Two of the changes come into effect on Monday (14 April) but police have delayed the starting date in all but five districts, saying other areas are not ready. The new phased roll out is the second time police have rescheduled the changes. More >>
Nurses’ Union Backs Call To Scrap Anti-Treaty Bill
Friday, 4 April 2025, 3:47 pm | New Zealand Nurses Organisation
Parliament's Justice Committee has released its report into the Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Bill and has recommended it does not proceed. More >>
