November 2024
‘They ignore the data, they ignore us’ — nurses’ fears over planned safe staffing tool pause
November 12, 2024
Nurses and kaiāwhina fear Te Whatu Ora’s planned pause on safe staffing calculations will put patients at risk.
November 2024
November 12, 2024
Nurses and kaiāwhina fear Te Whatu Ora’s planned pause on safe staffing calculations will put patients at risk.
October 2024
October 30, 2024
NZNO delegate Ben Basevi was one of the nurses at Waitākere Hospital who recently led action to refuse care for a patient who had asked for white-only staff and made racist and sexual remarks over a six-week period. In this opinion piece, he explores the health and safety issues at the worker/consumer/visitor interface, and promotes the development of a policy and guidelines specifically designed to manage racism in public hospitals.
Read more... Getting the boss to deal with racist patients in our hospitals
October 2024
October 18, 2024
Te Whatu Ora is looking to axe four directors of nursing (DONs) by the end of the year in a blow to senior nursing leadership at the organisation.
Read more... Senior nurse leaders face cuts in proposed Te Whatu Ora reshuffle
October 2024
October 14, 2024
Porirua Mayor Anita Baker says she will hold Health Minister Shane Reti to his word that the after-hours accident and medical service at Kenepuru Hospital will not be chopped and replaced with a telehealth service.
Read more... Kenepuru Hospital: ‘All hell will break loose if he doesn’t keep his word’
October 2024
October 9, 2024
Hospital nurses delivered a whopping $2.1 billion bill to Te Whatu Ora chief executive Margie Apa in Wellington today for years of incorrect holiday entitlements.
Read more... ‘They need to make good! ‘ Nurses deliver $2.1b bill to Margie Apa
October 2024
October 9, 2024
In te reo Māori, the word hōhā packs a lot of punch! It can mean many things but in this case it simply means ‘fed up!’ And it is the single word Tracey Morgan, spokesperson for the NZNO-Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa primary health-care bargaining team, is using to describe the latest negotiations with employers of about 3500 nurses throughout Aotearoa.
Read more... Primary health nurses ‘hōhā’ with three per cent offer
September 2024
September 25, 2024
New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki O Aotearoa entered day one of collective contract negotiations with Te Whatu Ora this morning.
Read more... Te Whatu Ora bargaining for 35,000 nurses enters day one
September 2024
September 24, 2024
Bargaining begins tomorrow on NZNO’s biggest collective agreement between more than 30,000 nurses and Te Whatu Ora.
August 2024
August 13, 2024
News that Te Whatu Ora Waikato is recruiting 59 nursing graduates into supported-entry roles at Waikato Hospital and other areas has made some of New Zealand’s newest nurses “so happy”.
August 2024
August 7, 2024
Te Whatu Ora says it is “committed to supporting” new nursing graduates who missed out on supported-entry roles to find work — but not in New Zealand’s public hospitals.
Read more... Nursing workforce landscape ‘significantly changed’ — Te Whatu Ora
August 2024
August 5, 2024
Sixty-six Hamilton graduates from Wintec’s nursing school are in limbo after Te Whatu Ora Waikato mistakenly offered them supported-entry jobs — then withdrew them due to a human “clerical error”.
Read more... 66 Waikato graduates in limbo after hospital job offer ‘glitch’
July 2024
August 2, 2024
Blindsided, abandoned and heart-broken — these are the feelings of some of our newest nurse graduates who missed out on hospital jobs — many of whom are heading to Australia.
Read more... Jobless nursing graduates feel ‘heart-broken and abandoned’
July 2024
July 24, 2024
Te Whatu Ora says it has employed 334 of the 535 mid-year nursing graduates who applied into supported entry roles — leaving 166 facing uncertain futures in the general talent pool.
Read more... Three out of five nursing students to get hospital jobs, Te Whatu Ora figures show
July 2024
July 2, 2024
Te Whatu Ora says its job-matching process for 535 mid-year nursing graduates is “still underway” and it cannot provide figures for another couple of weeks on where new nurses are going to be working.
Read more... Mid-year nurse graduate job matching ‘still underway’ — Te Whatu Ora
June 2024
June 21, 2024
Confused, demoralised and “absolutely gutwrenched” — these are the feelings of nursing tauira (students) after hearing Te Whatu Ora may be freezing mid-year graduate recruitment a week out from hiring decisions.
May 2024
May 30, 2024
A nurse who has quit and another who “literally ran” her entire shift were among those who spoke to Te Whatu Ora leaders face-to-face about latest cost-cutting — one breaking down in tears as she spoke.
January 2024
December 21, 2023
Ashburton Te Whatu Ora members took a moment this month to celebrate 2023 as the year they won a “significant” pay equity settlement after a seven-year uphill battle — a win they hope paves the way for other nurses and health workers.
January 2024
December 1, 2023
Te Whatu Ora nurses have described gruelling workplaces, rife with burnout, violence and unsafe staffing levels, as they turn out across the country to demand more investment in their workforce.
December 2023
November 20, 2023
As health budgets are being set, now is the time for Te Whatu Ora nurses, kaiāwhina and other workers to turn out and be heard by the new Government, say NZNO-Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa members.
September 2023
August 7, 2023
Strike action has been called off as NZNO nurses, health-care assistants, midwives and kaiāwhina voted — closely — to accept Te Whatu Ora’s offer, after more than 10 months of collective agreement negotiations.