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New Zealand Nurses Organisation

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Joined May 2022
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Health 21 Nov 2025
Puberty blocker ban will hurt young people: Child and Youth nurses

The decision to ban new prescriptions for puberty blockers will hurt young people, the NZNO College of Child and Youth Nurses (CCYN) Tapuhitia Ngā Mokopuna Mō Apōpō says.

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Health 23 May 2025
Magical thinking on hospital projects: NZNO

Low-paid women health workers have paid for the Coalition Government’s Budget centrepiece - tax incentives for business, New Zealand Nurses Organisation Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa (NZNO) says.

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Employment 6 May 2025
Pay equity changes an attack on women: NZNO

Changes by the Government to make pay equity claims harder to lodge and resolve are an attack on women, New Zealand Nurses Organisation Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa (NZNO) says.

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Health 20 Jan 2025
Time for the Government to address challenges faced by health sector - NZNO

The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) is calling on the Government to properly fund and resource the health sector to create an equitable health system that meets the needs of all New Zealanders.

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Health 19 Jan 2025
Stab-proof vests for mental health nurses?

ROTORUA — New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) is concerned that some mental health nurses are so worried about their safety, they are asking Te Whatu Ora to look into the use of stab-proof vests and personal alarms.

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Deaths 7 Jan 2025
"She bled for our people" - nurses pay tribute to Dame Tariana Turia

The New Zealand Nurses Organisation Tōputanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa (NZNO) joins te ao Māori to mourn the loss of Dame Tariana Turia - a former Associate Minister of Health and Whānau Ora Minister.

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Employment 2 Dec 2024
Te Whatu Ora nurses to take nationwide strike action

About 36,000 Te Whatu Ora nurses, midwives, health care assistants and kaimahi hauora will down tools tomorrow (Tuesday 3 December) in a nationwide strike over patient safety concerns following proposals raised in recent collective bargaining with Health NZ.

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Health 5 Sep 2024
NZNO urges Pharmac to take Israeli drug company off its list

New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) has deep concerns about the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the aggression of the Israeli state towards the Palestinian peoples.

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Employment 26 May 2023
New general practice wage funding welcome move in right direction - NZNO

The New Zealand Nurses Organisation Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa (NZNO) welcomes today’s announcement by Health Minister Ayesha Verrall that general practice, community and other nurses outside of Te Whatu Ora will be included in new funding to reduce pay disparities from July.

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Employment 24 May 2023
Employment Court upholds nurses' right to strike over health and safety

The New Zealand Nurses Organisation Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa (NZNO) says the absolutely vital right of workers to strike over health and safety matters has been upheld with the Employment Court dismissing a Te Whatu Ora application to stop a one-hour health and safety strike planned by nurses working is Ward 5 at Gisborne Hospital.

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Employment 22 May 2023
Te Whatu Ora takes legal action to stop Gisborne nurses strike

GISBORNE — The New Zealand Nurses Organisation Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa (NZNO) says Te Whatu Ora has applied for an interim injunction to stop a one-hour health and safety strike by its desperate Ward 5 (Acute Medical) nurses at Gisborne Hospital.

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Health 19 May 2023
Budget fails to value nurses

The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) says while the Governments Budget offers some staffing relief and pay adjustments it fails to respond to the frontline crisis in health.

New Zealand Budget 2023

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Employment 13 May 2023
Exhausted Gisborne Hospital Ward 5 nurses to strike

GISBORNE — On a day when they are being acknowledged and celebrated through Nurse Appreciation Day, one group of New Zealand nurses have had to make the very difficult decision to take strike action.

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Employment 23 Apr 2023
NZNO research shows clear pay disparity for general practice nurses

The New Zealand Nurses Organisation Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa (NZNO) is today launching the findings of its March pay disparity survey researching wages paid to members working in general practice (medical centre) settings.

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Health 13 Apr 2023
Nurses to rally for health crisis fix on Saturday

Thousands of nurses, midwives, health care assistants and kaimahi hauora, alongside their whānau and communities, will Maranga Mai! Rise Up! to rally on Saturday in 20 locations around the country.

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Health 6 Apr 2023
Leaked staff survey shows focus change needed at Te Whatu Ora

The New Zealand Nurses Organisation Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa (NZNO) says it is not surprised that a leaked staff survey shows widespread lack of confidence that Te Whatu Ora restructuring will be of any benefit.

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Employment 10 May 2022
NZNO to refer proposed pay equity settlement to Employment Relations Authority

The New Zealand Nurses Organisation, Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa (NZNO) says its members and others affected by the recently proposed DHB Nursing Pay Equity settlement have indicated they want the proposed settlement referred to the Employment Relations Authority (ERA) for a determination.

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