
Health Minister defends overseas holiday in lead-up to nurses' strike
Health Minister says he was in touch with colleagues while on overseas holiday.
Health Minister says he was in touch with colleagues while on overseas holiday.
Hospitals reported more staff and volunteers than planned.
Everything you need to know if seeking care while nurses strike
"The information I got was if I didn't come in she would be left."
Hospitals are ramping up preparations for when up to 30,000 nurses strike on Thursday.
The Nurses' Organisation will this morning announce the result of its members vote.
The Nurses' Organisation will this morning announce the result of its members vote.
Healthcare company ordered to pay a nurse more than $10,000 for unjust dismissal.
Nurses at Middlemore are wearing emergency alarms as the number of violent assaults rises.
COMMENT: Industrial action doesn't work and threatens to drag NZ back to the 1970s.
COMMENT: This latest offer would only halve the pay gap between here and Australia.
More positive commentary surfacing on Government's third pay offer to nurses.
Nurses say they are "distressed" and "disappointed" with latest pay offer.
Patients in New Zealand deserve better care than this, nurse tells.
Nurses say they will strike for two days if latest pay offer not acceptable
But the union is pleased with the panel's recommendations around staffing.
DHBs must develop a contingency plan to ensure life-preserving services continue.
Comment: We don't value carers enough. They deserve so much better and so much more.
Comment: By the very nature of mass unionism you're destined for smallest of pay rises.
PM fronts the media for her weekly media conference.
DHBs and nursing union planning behind the scenes for industrial action.
An investigation into the alleged assault on staff at Hillmorton Hospital is now underway.
A nurse was beaten senseless, another's finger was bitten to the bone.
DHB executives are travelling all over the world on taxpayer money.
About 70 Massey University staff want to take voluntary redundancy, and more may go
Angry families are pursuing nurses at home as well as at work, researcher finds.
A rest home nurse has won over $31,000 after the ERA said found she was wrongly sacked.
Opposition parties reveal what they want to see in the health budget on Thursday.
'It's getting harder to do the work that we trained for,' says open letter from nurses.