By Renee Kiriona
September 12, 2025
There’s one face that shines through at every single rally, picket and march in Wellington that has anything to do with nurses or health. And that face belongs to Sarita Sharma.
Read more... Sarita Sharma: The capital’s face of a fighting nurse
By Joel Maxwell
September 3, 2025
The strike was nationwide, covering tens of thousands, but the reasons for nursing were simple, personal — and always about the patient.
Read more... Strike Day 1: Action might be nationwide, but Te Whatu Ora nurses’ motivations are very personal
By Renee Kiriona
August 22, 2025
Mum is the boss at home but daughter is the boss at work. Bernadette and Melanie Taankink have both worked as nurses at Wellington Hospital’s ED for more than 20 years, yet few colleagues know they are actually whānau.
Read more... ED duo – Mum boss at home, daughter boss at work
By Joel Maxwell
July 28, 2025
Nurses took an oath, clinical nurse co-ordinator Ayla Evans-Warmenhoven said, and frankly it’s getting tough keeping it.
Read more... ‘Kia tū māia’ — ngā kupu tautoko a ngā tapuhi hauora matua ki ngā kiriporotū o Te Whatu Ora
By Joel Maxwell
July 28, 2025
Nurses took an oath, clinical nurse co-ordinator Ayla Evans-Warmenhoven said, and frankly it’s getting tough keeping it.
Read more... ‘PS – go hard’ — primary health-care nurses’ words of support for Te Whatu Ora strikers
By Mary Longmore
June 30, 2025
Up to 66 nurses short and dozens of patients stacked in cramped corridors — that’s the day-to-day reality of Wellington Hospital’s cramped emergency department, say nurses.
Read more... ‘They came on a good day’ — Wellington nurses say new ED must be safely staffed
By Mary Longmore
October 20, 2023
After a three-and-a-half year battle, 18 Wellington nurses are celebrating winning hundreds of thousands of dollars in back pay after their role as patient flow coordinators at Wellington Hospital emergency department (ED) was underpaid for 13 years.
Read more... Emergency nurse ‘flow bros’ finally win back pay
By Cate Macintosh and Mary Longmore
May 16, 2023
A deadly fire at a Wellington hostel used by migrant nurses and other hospital staff described as a “one in one hundred year” event by Fire and Emergency New Zealand, has killed at least six people with another 11 still unaccounted for.
Read more... Nurses and hospital staff among survivors of deadly Wellington fire