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Member Newsletter/Pānui 28 August 2026 |
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North Shore delegates got together for an education day recently, to discuss how to grow their union, organise around health and safety and the broader political and economic environment in which we operate. Their ED's state of emergency for overcrowding has attracted much media and public attention this week.
Kia ora member
Chronically understaffed members working in North Shore Hospital’s overcrowded emergency department (ED) declared a state of emergency this week, capturing the attention of the media.
The department is operating at 200% and even 300% capacity some days, with patients – many old and frail – lining the corridors.
It followed delegates submitting hundreds of incident reports documenting the risks and consequences of unsafe staffing, without anything being done.
A letter sent to Te Whatu Ora chief executive Dr Dale Bramley last week signed by dozens of ED nurses and health care assistants demanded immediate action to end understaffing and implement culturally safe nurse-to-patient ratios.
“We can no longer remain silent while unsafe staffing puts our patients, ourselves and our community at risk every day,” the letter read.
Health and safety strike for Gisborne ED
As you are all painfully aware, EDs throughout the country are facing the same pressures North Shore is as the country is gripped by the worst influenza outbreak in a decade.
In Gisborne, ED members are taking turns working 12-hour shifts to cover short-staffing and staff illness. The stress has been exacerbated by the departure of a number of senior nurses in recent months.
This week exhausted members voted to hold a one-hour health and safety strike on 9 September to fight unsafe staffing. It follows a similar action in July at the Muriwai stroke ward at Waitākere Hospital.
This afternoon, delegates at the Muriwai ward launched a ballot for a second health and safety strike. I encourage other delegates to consider such action for their wards if their safe staffing concerns continue to be ignored by Te Whatu Ora.
The Health Minister’s alternative reality
It is fair to say the Government’s much-touted Winter Plan has been an abject failure. Many of you have rightfully been asking where the promised rapid wards and extra beds are. There is still no relief to the bed block preventing patients from being moved out of ED.
You’d be hard pressed to watch, read or listen to a news bulletin recently without hearing about it. So, when Health Minister Simeon Brown told 1 News this week that the Winter Plan was “managing well” some may have questioned whether he is out of touch with reality.
The Minister later took to social media to yet again claim his Government has hired 2100 more nurses despite admitting in Parliament last week the net increase is just 54 full-time nurses.
Nurses v Health NZ
The NZ Herald on Tuesday published an interactive exposé with Te Whatu Ora’s full 2025 Shift Below Target data on staffing at 663 wards nationwide.
It showed nearly half of all wards (42%) were under-staffed more than a quarter of all shifts last year. More than one-third (38%) of ED were understaffed more than half of the time last year. And more than half of all children’s wards (53%) were understaffed one in every five shifts.
These figures are evidence of the continual stress our members are under and the difficulty you face meeting the needs of your patients.
Capital and Coast go down escalation pathway
The staffing crisis has become so bad at Capital and Coast that members initiated the Acute Staffing Shortage escalation pathway. This pathway is part of your collective agreement and available to all members.
As a result, overtime has been approved and there has been a reduction in planned care. There will also be an investigation involving delegates.
Members are currently considering using the Sustained Short Staffing pathway which was negotiated as part of your new collective agreement. This would be the first time it is used.
Ratio work gets underway
Another result of the new collective agreement is that we have begun working with Te Whatu Ora on the staffing methodology which will evaluate ratios, nursing hours per patient day and acuity.
NZNO has bought together two members from each district to be part of this evaluation. The 18-member evaluation panel will come together next month to carry out this work.
Additionally, an expert panel has been created to ensure the methodology process is sound. NZNO’s representative on the panel is Jane Lawless who was the first director of the Safe Staffing Healthy Workplaces Unit and instrumental in setting up CCDM.
Infection Prevention & Control Nurses College meet
I called in at the Infection, Prevention & Control Nurses College conference at Takina in Wellington during the week. I went along with President Anne Daniels and Kaiwhakahaere Kerri Nuku (on video). It was an impressive conference, lots of attendees and congratulations for getting college membership over 1000.
Primary Care – back to the table
Our PHC bargaining team is back at the table next Thursday, after employers took eight weeks to respond to the modernised MECA we submitted – four times longer than promised – with a response that referred to non-existent clauses and raised claims we'd never made.
The employers are also pushing to strip out union and new employee protections and bring back unlawful clauses like 90-day trials and all-inclusive salaries, while a process agreement that would let your elected delegates take part remains unsigned.
Please join the team for an online update next Friday 4 September, 12:30–1pm, via the PHC MECA Facebook group or Zoom.
Te Akenehi Hei Memorial Award announced
On a bright note, I would like to extend a big mihi to Northland nurse and academic Dr Pipi Barton who’s been awarded the Te Akenehi Hei Memorial Award. This prestigious title is awarded only every two years and is the highest honour given by Te Rūnanga o Aotearoa.
Dr Barton (Ngāti Puhiawe, Ngāti Horotakere, Ngāti Hikairo ki Kāwhia) was presented with the taonga at Hui-ā-tau, the Indigenous Nurses Aotearoa Conference, held at Māhurehure Marae in Tāmaki Makaurau earlier this month.
Wishing you all a relaxing weekend with friends and whānau.
Ngā mihi,
Paul Goulter, chief executive
Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa NZNO |
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In this member newsletter |
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Behind every collective action and event are passionate NZNO delegates. Check out some highlights below: |
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The Waitākere Hospital Public Meeting
About 400 people turned out in West Auckland for our public hui, co-hosted with local Te Atatū MP Phil Twyford, demanding an end to understaffing and underfunding at Waitākere Hospital. This is what people power looks like!
Shout-out to the Waitākere nurses and healthcare assistants who turned up with their friends and whānau, and a huge mihi to our delegates who co-hosted the meeting and spoke so powerfully about the reality of understaffing. The community is organised, and we’re not going anywhere. |
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Members at Te Toka Tumai raise acute short staffing through poster action
Te Toka Tumai delegates have started putting up acute staffing shortage posters so that patients and whanau are aware of the staffing levels.
Despite management pulling the posters down, members are standing firm that patients and whanau have a right to know if there is an increased risk to cares because of staffing levels.
These posters are supported by our Collective Agreement. Talk to your delegate or organiser if you’re keen to take similar action at your workplace. |
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North Shore Hospital delegates visiting their local National MP Simon Watts to make sure he had received a copy of the letter from 120 North Shore ED nurses declaring a state of emergency, and to invite him to their public meeting on 3 September. |
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Joint NZNO-Te Whatu Ora work programmes from this year’s collective agreement negotiations
In this year’s bargaining NZNO members won provisions that require ongoing joint work by NZNO and Te Whatu Ora that will be progressed through a number of work programmes. Many of these work programmes are related to addressing understaffing, a key issue in the negotiations. Work is now underway on these workstreams with NZNO being represented by member leaders from the National Delegates Committee, Bargaining Team or relevant college/section, and supported by NZNO staff.
Full details are in the Terms of Settlement.
Latest updates:
- Health Care Assistant role and professional development review programme
The purpose of this programme is to consider the role of health care assistants within Te Whatu Ora and to align professional development with the role. Our workgroup has received a draft Terms of Reference and draft project plan that will run through until October 2027. We will meet with Te Whatu Ora next week to discuss further.
- Safe staffing - Establishing the new escalation pathway training and implementation of new chronic staffing issues resolution process
The purpose of this workgroup is to help establish the new escalation pathway (page 66 of the collective agreement). This group is in the process of finalising a pilot programme for the new escalation pathway.
To follow the progress of all the workgroups check here: Te Whatu Ora workgroups |
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Island Bay Medical Centre's Deanna Mallon (NZNO Delegate), Joanne Matheson and Jennifer Hayward.
It’s been a very busy couple of weeks in the sector so far.
We had mediation with Plunket last week. Plunket have, as has been highlighted in the media this year, not been properly funded by the government, despite it being a promise in the coalition agreement. Their offer of 2.5% didn’t change from previous offers, in fact they said that compared to the HNZ settlement, their offer was ‘competitive’. Our team did explain that HNZ members received 2.5% and a lump sum and will get another 2% early next year. We also pointed to recent settlements such as 8% in the last 12 months for the PHC MECA and 6% earlier this year for Access. We made some counterproposals, but Plunket refused to change the offer. They asked us to put the offer to members for a ratification vote, which we agreed to reluctantly based on our good faith obligations.
Corrections are working on a number of working groups to address issues that came out of the last bargaining. We have had the reports for four of these now, which will be presented to the two bargaining teams prior to us starting negotiations. We do have a bargaining team and some draft claims, but we need to get the work done on remaining working groups before we can start the formal negotiations.
We still await a response to our initiation and proposed bargaining agreement from Healthcare NZ. We initiated bargaining at the end of July and have had no response to our repeated requests for bargaining dates.
The PHC NDC met again at an in-person special general meeting on Wednesday this week to work on actions to support primary health campaigning, including signing off on the Plunket funding open letter to Winston Peters (now sent), a proposed survey on primary health workers, a request sent to the health minister to meet, identifying members to fill the vacancies on NDC, welcoming of a new South Island delegate to NDC, and more. We have two new NDC delegates – Mike Pye for Central and Nivi Sharma for Auckland/Northland. |
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Aged Residential Care |
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NZNO member Verma Agot met with the Labour Central Candidate, Naisi Chen last Friday. Naisi Chen says 'Yes' to supporting safe staffing, providing more funding and supporting health care sectors. |
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Summerset
Congratualtions to our new bargaining team members. The company has proposed 28 September for our first bargaining dates in Wednesday. Thanks to those who filled out our claims survey. The priority claim for members was wages. We will be bringing this to bargaining with us.
Our elected bargaining team members are:
- Helen Hodgson (HCA) Summerset Palms, Te Awa
- Natasha Greig (HCA) Summerset in the Bay, Napier
- Tiaho Whakamarurangi (HCA) Summerset on the Landing, Kenepuru
- Lisa Marriner (HCA) Summerset on the Landing, Kenepuru
Thank you to the other delegates who were nominated, we appreciate your active involvement with this important negotiations.
Bupa
Congratulations Bupa members your collective agreement has been ratified.
- The pay rate uplift for members will be included in the pay run effective 31/08/2026 and paid to employees on 17 September 2026 to all employees covered by the MUCA.
- Employees transferring to NZACS will receive their back pay in the upcoming pay run (paid on 17 September), plus their uplift in pay rate.
- The Back Pays for the remainder of the Bupa members will be processed in the following pay run to separate these out, which will be direct credited to all staff on Thursday 1st October 2026.
Bupa Senior Nurses
Thank you for those who participated in our Bupa Senior Nurses collective agreement. We have bargaining pencilled in for Friday 23 October.
Oceania
Lady Allum is currently piloting a review process for the change proposals that have been happening at a number of Oceania sites this year. The change proposals are still underway, happening at two sites at a time. Thank you to all our Oceania delegates for your work supporting members through these changes.
Heritage
Congratulations to Heritage members, your collective agreement has also settled.
Thanks so much for your email regarding ratification, that is wonderful news and we look forward to receiving your signatures.
The increase is effective 1 October 2026, the company will endeavour to make payment as soon as possible after that date and align it with a standard fortnightly pay cycle aiming for the pay of the 14 October 2026.
Metlifecare
Congratulations to our elected bargaining team: Angela Miller from Merivale, Ted Alvez from Greenwich Gardens and Reina Picar from Merivale. We look forward to bargaining in Auckland on 9 and 10 September.
Radius
Congratulations to our elected bargaining team: Mwape Chalabesa, RN, Karori Emily Connelly, HCA, Potter Home Fenu Ioane, HCA, Waipuna. We look forward to bargaining in Auckland on 15 and 16 September.
Aged Safe
Lobbying Visits Aged care delegates are currently visiting MPs to discuss low staffing levels in aged care facilities and the impact this has on both workers and residents in rest homes across their electorates. |
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Pay equity in the funded sector |
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Pay Equity: An Election Issue
NZCTU has released data this week that shows the gender pay gap has widened over the past year. Using the mean measure, the gap was 9.6% in the June 2026 quarter, up from 8.7% a year earlier. This means that from 27 November, women in Aotearoa are effectively working for free for the rest of the year.
The impact is even greater for Māori, Pacific and Asian women. Pacific women reach that point on 1 October, Māori women on 20 October and Asian women on 21 October.
For NZNO members, these numbers are not abstract, Women are concentrated in health, care, and community workforces where work has been historically undervalued and where the Government significantly restricted access to pay equity last year.
The gap is widening while the strongest mechanism for addressing it has been weakened, removing access to pay equity does not remove the undervaluation of women’s work; it removes one of the tools available to correct it.
That makes pay equity an election issue.
The question for political parties is straightforward: will they support a system that actively addresses the undervaluation of women’s work, or accept a widening gap and fewer pathways to fix it?
NZNO’s claims at Bupa, Hospice and Plunket are being pursued in this more constrained legal environment. Together, they are helping test the new law, challenge undervaluation and build evidence about where the system is working — and where it prevents pay equity from being achieved.
As members talk with colleagues, whānau and communities during the election campaign, pay equity is an important part of the conversation about the kind of workforce and society we want. If we want the gap to close, we need deliberate action, pay equity is one of the ways we can change it, and political parties should be clear about whether they will.
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Private Hospitals and Hospice Sector |
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SECTOR-WIDE
Braemar readies for action
Union members at Braemar, a non-profit private hospital in Hamilton, are getting ready for action. Negotiations have been protracted, and members have had enough.
As part of an escalating campaign plan, delegates and volunteers are collecting signatures for a petition calling for a better offer and committing members to stand together and take action if the offer is not improved.
The team’s position is:
Cost of living
No 0% for a whole year. Backpay from 1 September 2025 and a minimum 6.1% increase by the end of the two-year term for all staff, including seniors.
Fair pay for every role
Some roles would still be up to $4.52 an hour below Te Whatu Ora, including CSSD. Move all roles towards the same level above Te Whatu Ora as our nurses.
Keep our conditions
Braemar should not be able to remove individual conditions or stop staff negotiating above the collective.
Braemar turns 100 this year and has never had strike action. Watch this space.
Negotiations and sickness
We continue to be inundated with negotiations, while sickness is also affecting staff on the floor, our negotiation teams, and union officials.
All of our negotiation teams are focused on settling as soon as possible, and before Christmas. We appreciate your ongoing support and patience.
National Delegates Committee
Our NDC is meeting next Tuesday, 1 September, to start planning our strategic priorities for 2027.
We will shortly readvertise both the South Island and Midlands vacancies on the committee. Elections will open shortly.
Thank you, Lauren
We’d like to give a special thank you to Lauren Te Whaiti, our wonderful Nurse Practitioner from Waipuna Hospice, for her support for our new committee.
Lauren is stepping down as she is moving into another sector. We really appreciate the contribution she has made and wish her all the best.
HOSPICE
Arohanui
Negotiations were delayed due to sickness and will be rescheduled.
Hospice MECA – Rotorua, Taupō, Eastern Bay of Plenty and Marlborough
Eastern Bay of Plenty and Rotorua members have unanimously rejected their respective variations. Eastern Bay of Plenty management is speaking with its Board about backpay. We are in discussions with Rotorua about options for movement. Marlborough members voted to accept their employer’s proposed rates, which will be paid shortly. Taupō members accepted their offer earlier.
North Haven
We have received a new pay offer, alongside clarification of the employer’s previous changes to conditions, which delegates are working through. The team have agreed we will report back to members in the coming weeks, whether we have a settlement or not.
Mid Northland
We have developed a draft pay proposal which we will share with the delegate and employer next week.
Mercy
We have a counterproposal to provide to the company once a number of our team return from leave.
Taranaki
We will reconvene negotiations in the second week of September, when the Chief Executive returns.
Te Omanga
We are back in negotiations on 10 September.
PRIVATE AND NGO HOSPITALS
Health NZ has signed a $300 million, six-year contract with Southern Cross, Allevia Mercy Ascot and Mercy Hospital Dunedin to help clear the orthopaedic backlog. NZ Herald (paywalled)
ABI/Evolve Rehabilitation
The offer has been accepted, and we are working through the paperwork so the pay rise and lump sums, for those entitled to them, can be processed.
Braemar
Our petition for a better and fairer deal has started and already has many signatures. If you haven’t already signed it, speak to your delegate and sign up your colleagues. Once enough members have signed, we will escalate to the next stage of our campaign.
Crest
We will reconvene negotiations once everyone has returned from leave.
Evolution
Due to sickness, we have booked some additional meetings to prioritise claims for negotiations.
Join us on Saturday 29 August or Tuesday 1 September at 7pm.
Grace
TSU members won their 5% and withdrew their strike action. We expect to have an offer for everyone else early next week, following a Board meeting yesterday.
Kensington
Delegates are meeting today to discuss the company’s new offer.
Southern Cross Rotorua
We have completed two days of well-attended claims meetings, which included non-nursing staff joining us for the first time. Our next step is to develop our proposed final claims for members’ endorsement.
St George’s
We are going to mediation on Thursday, 10 September. We will report back to members shortly afterwards on whether we have an offer.
PRIVATE HEALTH
New Zealand Clinical Research
We have finished reviewing the IEA against the collective agreement and are doing a final check before discussing the results with delegates. Once that is complete, we will share the review with the company for its feedback. |
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Our leaders speak: Kaiwhakahaere Kerri Nuku – Is health care like a 'boiling frog' experiment? |
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I want to start by acknowledging nurses, health workers, and everyone holding the system together across the motu. This winter has been rough.
We expect winter to put pressure on services, but this one has felt relentless.
Influenza has moved through whānau, communities, and the workforce itself.
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People are turning up tired, shifts are short, and too many are carrying more than anyone should reasonably be asked to carry. I see that mahi, and I do not want it to be treated as just business as usual.
Over the past few months, I have spoken with many health workers and tauira across the motu. What I am hearing is consistent: people are tired, frustrated, and worried about where this is heading.
Health and nursing are back in the media because an election is getting closer. Suddenly everyone wants to talk about the state of the health system. And yes, we should be talking about it. The public should know what is happening. But nurses have been saying this for years. The crisis did not suddenly appear because it became useful in an election year. It has been building, while the people making decisions have picked the bits of nursing they want to talk about and ignored the rest. We are visible when it suits the politics. We are too often ignored when the real decisions are made.
The image of Carl Fratscher's experiment with the boiling frog keeps coming back to me. The heat does not go up all at once. It rises bit by bit, and every increase gets explained away as temporary, manageable, or just part of the job. That is what has happened in nursing. A bit more demand here. A bit less staffing there. Another winter surge. Another public statement that does not match what nurses are seeing. Another expectation that people will just keep coping. Before long, pressure becomes normal, and people stop recognising it as a crisis.
That is why the numbers matter. Ministers and officials have said there were 2100 more nurses employed over the past two years. But when you look at full-time contracts, the number is only 54. That is not a small gap. That is not a rounding issue. That changes the story being told to the public. If the workforce numbers are being presented in a way that does not match what nurses are living, then we are right to ask what else is being dressed up to make things look better than they are.
Nurses are telling a very different story from the one we are hearing in some political commentary. They are talking about a hard winter, influenza ripping through communities, staff off sick, gaps across shifts, and services being pushed right to the edge. That does not sit comfortably beside the claim that hospitals are managing well. The issue is not that nurses do not understand the system. The issue is that nurses understand it too well, because they are the ones holding it together.
And I keep asking myself, when does this end? Because it is not one thing. It is everything piling up at once. It is the attacks on the Nursing Council and cultural safety. It is physician assistants being introduced into a workforce already under pressure. It is pay equity. It is community and primary care being left to absorb the pressure. It is Hauora Māori providers and Māori health having to fight, again and again, for what should already be understood. It is tauira dealing with placement poverty and job insecurity before they have even started properly. It is mental health, corrections, rural health, and so many services being expected to make do with less while the need keeps growing.
And underneath all of this is something else we cannot ignore: racism is being allowed to creep back into places where it should have no place at all. We need to call that out. Cultural safety is not some optional extra. Māori health is not a side issue. Hauora Māori, equity, and safe care are not things that can be picked up or dropped depending on the politics of the day. They are central to whether people can trust the health system. When they are weakened, whānau pay the price.
We also have to talk about state and faith-based abuse. We cannot talk about health, safety, trust, and care without naming the harm done by institutions that were supposed to protect people. Children, whānau, disabled people, Māori, Pasifika, and vulnerable communities were harmed while systems looked after themselves. That history is not separate from the health system. So, when we are told to simply trust institutions to protect people, we have every right to ask: based on what? History shows us that institutions have not always protected those in their care. And right now, when numbers are being fudged, facts are being massaged, and uncomfortable truths are being avoided, trust is not being built. It is being damaged. It is part of the same conversation about power, racism, cultural safety, and who gets believed. Survivors need to be heard, redress needs to be real, and healing needs to be properly supported. Public services cannot be allowed to hide behind silence, denial, or paperwork ever again.
Like the frog in slowly boiling water, each new pressure is treated as something nurses, whānau, survivors, and communities should just absorb. But this is not normal. It is not inevitable. These are political choices. Choices about funding, staffing, pay, equity, redress, workforce planning, and who gets believed when systems cause harm. Nurses are not asking for applause while nothing changes. Survivors are not asking for sympathy instead of justice. We are asking for honesty. We are asking for accountability. We are asking for safe staffing, fair pay, meaningful redress, investment in Māori health, and respect for cultural safety. And we are asking for a health system that actually listens to the people holding it together every day. Anything less is not leadership. It is neglect, and we have carried the cost of that neglect for long enough. |
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North Shore ED delegate Jean Moor talks to TVNZ Breakfast's Tova O'Brian on Tuesday about the state of emergency due to overcrowding at the hospital. |
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Highlights from the past fortnight:
My three weeks in hospital: Why our health system can’t cope
1News, 27 August 2026
New Zealand’s hospital headaches, by the numbers
The Spinoff, 26 August 2026
North Shore Hospital nurses meet Health NZ over ED 'crisis'
Radio NZ, 25 August 2026
Nobody wants their loved ones left waiting when they're at their most vulnerable
1 News Breakfast, 25 August 2026
North Shore Hospital ED nurses declare ‘state of emergency’ amid overcrowding
Stuff, 24 August 2026
Nurses sound alarm on conditions at North Shore Hospital
RNZ Audio, 24 August 2026
'Absolute nightmare' - patients left waiting in soiled beds at North Shore emergency department
RNZ/New Zealand Herald/TVNZ, 24 August 2026
Nursing graduate applies for more than 100 jobs without success
RNZ/NZ Herald, 20 August 2026
Wait times in EDs have often been running into double digit hours this winter
News Fix, 19 August 2026
Whakatāne Hospital nurses call for more staff amid heavy workloads
Bay of Plenty Times/Rotorua Daily News, 19 August 2026
Cultural Safety Under Fire as Māori Nurses Defend Patient Protections
Waatea News, 19 August 2026
Flu wards set up, elective surgery cancelled as hospital admissions surge
The Press/Waikato Times/Stuff.co.nz/New Zealand Herald/The Post/Radio New Zealand/Reo Irirangi, 18 August 2026
There's just not enough hands on deck
1News, 17 August 2026 |
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We are now just under a month to go until representatives from our member structures gather in Rotorua for the 2026 AGM and Conference. AGM documents can be found on our website here. If you have questions or feedback on the AGM papers, please ensure that you provide that to the representatives from your Local Organising Group, National Delegates Committee, College and Section Committee, the National Student Unit, or Te Rūnanga.
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Grow yourself professionally by joining NZNO's colleges and sections |
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Colleges and sections are central to NZNO’s success and influence and brings together groups of members who are focused on a specific nursing specialty.
So far only less than 20% of members have elected to join a college or section, and we'd like to see you grow that number. NZNO colleges and sections can help you advance your practice through policy and professional development opportunities, and membership at most colleges and sections is open and free to NZNO members.
There’s bound to be one for every member as there are 19 colleges and sections across a range of specialty areas and members can choose to belong to as many as three. Individual membership choices are usually related to clinical specialty and/or study and research interests.
Check out our colleges and sections here. Which one(s) will you join? |
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Primary Health Care Symposium |
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Southern Enrolled Nurse Study Day
The Southern Region Enrolled Nurse Section invites you to attend our 2026 Study Day.
When: Saturday 17 October 2026
Where: Hutton Theatre, Tūhura Otago Museum, 419 Great King Street North Dunedin
NZNO member & ENS Member: $70.00
NZNO member but non ENS Member: $80.00
Non NZNO Member: $90.00
Contact Robyn Hewlett: robyn.hewlett@xtra.co.nz |
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NZCTU welcomes discussion opened up by release of Te Pāti Māori’s tax plan |
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“The NZCTU welcomes a discussion on New Zealand’s tax system following the release of Te Pāti Māori’s tax plan, as well as the plan released in June by the Green Party”, says Sandra Grey, President of the NZ Council of Trade Unions Te Kauae Kaimahi. |
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“New Zealand’s tax system is unfair. Working people pay tax on every dollar they earn from their wages, while the wealthiest earn tax free returns from capital income. As research from Inland Revenue shows, the wealthiest families in Aotearoa pay only half the effective tax rate that ordinary working Kiwis do”, says Grey.
“This has contributed to the rising levels of inequality in our society,” adds Grey. “High inequality is socially and economically poisonous. We need to rebalance things so that the wealthy pay their fair share.”
Read more |
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ICN awarded ANCC accreditation for nursing continuing professional development |
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This accreditation provides independent confirmation that ICN's professional development programming meets rigorous standards for high-quality, evidence-based learning. It reflects ICN’s longstanding commitment to nursing workforce development and lifelong learning as well as the organization’s central role in shaping nurse education, leadership, and professional development worldwide.
Read more |
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Shift choice and flexible scheduling: Impact on nurse fatigue and retention among nurses in New Zealand |
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Victoria University is looking for nurses to take part in a short, anonymous survey.
This research aims to explore nurses’ experiences of shift choice and flexible scheduling and how these relate to fatigue, job satisfaction, and retention in New Zealand. |
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The study will also explore nurses’ involvement in roster decisions and whether greater flexibility and control over work schedules may contribute to improved wellbeing and retention in the nursing workforce.
By participating, you will contribute to research that could help shape safer, more supportive work conditions for nurses. Your voice matters!
Scan the QR code or click here to access the survey.
For more information, contact Adetoun Oyekunle at Adetoun.oyekunle@vuw.ac.nz or 02040839223 |
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The Royal College of Nursing has warned of unsafe working conditions for many members in hospital wards and care homes due to the heatwave in the UK. Story below. |
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Top-level nurses can’t finish their degrees because of a severe shortage of mentors
USA, hechingreport, 24 August 2026
- Nurses fainting in ‘inhumane’ conditions due to extreme heat, union warns
UK, The Guardian, 13 August 2026
- Nurses and teachers facing 12-month wait to get to Australia under visa overhaul
Australia, ABC, 22 August 2026
- Nurses Sound the Alarm After Pharmacy Error Paralyzes Patients at Nashville Hospital
USA, nurses.org, 24 August 2026
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‘Enough is enough’: Kenya nurses strike over pay and working conditions
Kenya, Al Jazeera, 25 August 2026
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