May 2025
May 8, 2025
Low-paid women across health-care, education and many other sectors were devastated today, after Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety Brooke Van Velden announced the Government was halting all current pay equity claims — and making it harder to lodge new ones.
Read more... Outrage, shock and fury as Government halts pay equity claims
May 2025
May 7, 2025
A health clinic at the Māori performing arts festival, Te Matatini, provided an unconventional but inspirational venue for nursing students’ clinical placements.
Read more... Māori health comes alive for nursing students at Te Matatini
May 2025
May 6, 2025
| An Auckland nursing student asks why students can’t get more financial support while on clinical placement. |  |
Read more... ‘Students are sleeping in cars’ — nursing student speaks out on financial challenges
May 2025
May 6, 2025
Dhyanne Hohepa is a leader among Māori nurses driven by aroha and passionate about clinical excellence.
Read more... Dhyanne Hohepa: ‘A light in the dark for Māori nurses’
May 2025
May 2, 2025
Despite an epic weather bomb dropping on ‘May Day’, May 1 saw large strikes and rallies throughout the country as nurses, doctors and other health workers joined in a desperate call for a safer health system.
April 2025
May 2, 2025
Allowing overseas-trained physician associates to become regulated here is a risky “quick fix” to doctor shortages, NZNO-Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa president Anne Daniels is warning.
Read more... Nurse practitioners ‘safer’ than physician associates — NZNO president
May 2025
May 1, 2025
In these difficult and uncertain economic times, when many people are experiencing financial hardship, help is available from the New Zealand Nurses Memorial Fund (NZNMF).
Read more... New Zealand Nurses Memorial Fund is here to help
April 2025
April 30, 2025
Perioperative nurses at Auckland City Hospital, Starship Hospital and Greenlane Hospital will strike tomorrow while thousands of other nurses throughout the country use their break times to march and rally as part of the nationwide May Day events.
Read more... May Day: Striking nurses (and mokopuna) among thousands set to fight back tomorrow
April 2025
April 29, 2025
When money is tight and the Government is cutting one service to provide for another equally deserving service, it divides the people and we fight amongst ourselves.
April 2025
April 29, 2025
| From supporting students to nurturing leaders, the Pacific nursing section (PNS) is working every angle to boost the numbers and skills of our Pacific nursing community, explains chair Ēseta Finau and treasurer Abel Smith. |  |
Read more... Pacific nursing section is set to grow Aotearoa’s Pacific nursing workforce
April 2025
April 28, 2025
‘It is hugely annoying to watch MPs pontificating on something about which they have a very superficial understanding.’
Read more... Attacks on cultural safety in health highlight politicians’ ignorance
April 2025
April 23, 2025
I was inspired to write this after reading the letters from the class of 2024 new graduates who had missed out on NETP positions with Te Whatu Ora, the release of the Government’s Health Infrastructure Plan and my own recent experience.
April 2025
April 23, 2025
Two Māori nursing leaders are at the United Nations highlighting the plight facing Māori health. In this interview with a UN reporter, they highlight the issue of violence, including sexual violence, toward Māori women who are three times more likely to be abused than non-Maori women.
Read more... Māori women and girl survivors of sexual violence face double trauma
April 2025
April 17, 2025
Auē! Kua wareware i a au taku kupuhipa. — Oh no! I’ve forgotten my password.
Read more... ‘Tech is good for Māori and Māori is good for tech’: It’s cool to kōrero — April 2025
April 2025
April 17, 2025
Wellington nurse and NZNO delegate Hilary Gardner shares her vision for a well-funded health system in Aotearoa.
Read more... ‘Imagine’ — Wellington nurse shares her vision of a well-funded health system
April 2025
April 15, 2025
A unexpectedly large community turnout moved Nelson Hospital staff to tears on Saturday as nurses, doctors, health-care assistants and families joined hands to form a 1000-strong human chain outside the hospital.
Read more... Nurses moved to tears by ‘overwhelming’ community support over Nelson Hospital
April 2025
April 11, 2025
All members will in May have the chance to vote on a proposed new NZNO — Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa constitution which would change the way the organisation is structured and members represented.
Read more... Proposed constitutional shake-up would see ‘more egalitarian’ and te Tiriti-led NZNO
April 2025
April 11, 2025
Something serious is brewing in the central North Island like a “ticking time bomb” ready to go off any moment now, according to Malcolm Mulholland, head of Patient Voice Aotearoa.
Read more... Taupō could become health system’s next ‘Buller casualty’
April 2025
April 4, 2025
Nurses and medical receptionists at Sexual Wellbeing Aotearoa (SWA – formerly Family Planning) poised for strike action, have accepted a pay rise — but their battle for pay parity continues.
Read more... Sexual health workers accept offer but ‘a long way to go’
January 2025
January 1, 2022
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