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Labour wants to achieve pay rates for primary care nurses that mean there is no disincentive to practicing in the community compared to the hospital.
– Health spokesperson Ayesha Verrall  Labour’s health policies can be found in full here: https://www.labour.org.nz/our-policies/ |
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We will advocate to lift first-level care from 5.7 to 10 per cent of Health New Zealand’s spending over the life of our 10-year health plan, with that money going first to retaining the clinicians already working there.
We recognise how the lack of pay parity affects workers and services, and by extension, patients, outside Health NZ. We will advocate for funding to be sufficient to pay workers well whether they are inside or outside Health NZ. – Health spokesperson Jessica Hammond  Opportunity health policy can be found here: https://www.opportunity.org.nz/healthy_people |
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Te Pāti Māori will introduce a sustainable funding model for the primary care, aged care, and iwi providers to close the pay gap, and ensure that all nurses in Aotearoa are paid at the same rates.
Te Pāti Māori’s full health policy can be found here and its education and training policy here. |
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Nurses should receive equal pay for work of equal value, regardless of whether they work for Health NZ, primary care, aged care, kaupapa Māori or iwi providers.
We will fund contracts so providers can match public-sector pay and conditions. Closing these gaps is essential to retaining nurses, strengthening community care and preventing services from competing for the same workforce.  – Health spokesperson Hūhana Lyndon The Green Party’s full health policy can be found here: https://www.greens.org.nz/health_policy |
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 National’s health spokesperson, current Minister of Health Simeon Brown, refused to answer any of Kaitiaki’s questions, citing NZNO’s “politicising” of health in the lead up to the General Election. |
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The ACT Party’s health spokesperson Todd Stephenson did not answer questions due to “capacity constraints”. |
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No answers were received from New Zealand First’s health spokesperson Casey Costello. |
Responses published in the order they were received.