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Former Gisborne Hospital nurse Sarah Kapene and her horse Pearl say 'neigh' to unsafe staffing in our EDs.
Nurses, especially in EDs, have received nationwide attention this past fortnight. Vote for Health public meetings in both Northcote and Gisborne, as well as the declaration of a 'state of emergency' and the Gisborne ED strike, saw the plight of health workers highlighted through mainstream, local and social media.
With elections looming, delegates also met with their local political representatives in other parts of the country to discuss the health crisis that's enveloped Aotearoa.
Members have also been active supporting the Living Wage and the national PSA actions.
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Gisborne ED nurses will not be silenced.
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Some speakers at the Community Health Care Election Forum.
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Northcote's Vote for Health hui last Thursday.
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NZNO at the Living Wage National Forum.
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Te Whatu Ora delegates New Plymouth and Hawera after visiting local MP Amanda Clinton.
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The crew at PSA's national strike on Wednesday.
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Gisborne ED nurses have their say on
Wednesday.
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More than 100 members and supporters turned up for the Gisborne rally.
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Receiving great media coverage in Gisborne.
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Attendees at the Northcote meeting on 3 September.
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North Shore members in support of their Gisborne colleagues.
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The audience at Gisborne's Community Health Care Election Forum.
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ASMS executive director Sarah Dalton shows her election
priority.
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NZNO delegate Lesley Pook addresses the audience in Northcote.
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Christchurch delegate Al Dietschin in solidarity with Gisborne ED nurses.
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Let's get organised!
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Behind every collective action and event are passionate NZNO delegates. Check out some highlights below:
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A big shout out to all NZNO members who have taken action this past week, especially Gisborne Hospital ED members who walked off the job this week for an hour over unsafe staffing.
Gisborne Hospital ED members strike
Nearly 200 people came out to support all of the ED members taking part in strike action to end unsafe staffing.
Thity-four ED members were on the picket line to support their colleagues walking off. There were horses, fire trucks, dump trucks, and so much more! The members felt incredibly powerful, and they felt their community wrapping around them. Messages of support and solidarity were also shared from across the motu.
If you and your colleagues want to get active to win safe staffing at your workplace, get in touch with our Member Support Centre on 0800 283 848.
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Asking politicians the hard questions at NZNO Healthcare Election Forums in Tairāwhiti and Auckland’s North Shore
More than 200 people from across Tairāwhiti and 300 on the North Shore came to hear healthcare workers speak about the challenges they are facing, what it would take to fix those challenges, and placing their demands to elected representatives.
Both events were organised and led by the Local Organising Groups, with massive support from the community for our election demands. Check them out here Vote for Health - Maranga Mai!
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Central Hawke's Bay and Napier Plunket members come together
Plunket members across the Napier and Central Hawke’s Bay region met to discuss their collective bargaining and other challenges they are facing.
Members spoke about increasing workloads, growing service demand, staffing shortages, and the impact these pressures are having on their ability to deliver care to tamariki and whānau.
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Christchurch Hospital members show support for their Gisborne ED colleagues on Wednesday.
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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:
- Mental Health Workforce Support
This initiative aims to address staffing challenges and ensure quality and safety across mental health services. Key workstreams include: quality and safe staffing, violence and aggression management, and recruitment and vacancy management. The NZNO, PSA and Te Whatu Ora reps will meet on 22 September to progress this. - National Midwifery Governance Group
There will be a national group established to oversee the midwifery workforce. The Governance Group will include NZNO representation and will be chaired by the National Chief Midwife. This group is in the process of planning its first meeting.
- 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. There will be more information for HCAs available soon.
- 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 that will run from mid-September to mid-November.
To follow the progress of all the workgroups check here: Te Whatu Ora workgroups
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The PHC bargaining team. L-R: Kylie Goddard, Priscilla Wiki and Tracey Morgan
We had a second day of PHC MECA negotiations last week on 3 September. We have reached the point of the employers making an offer which we will present to members once we have the paperwork etc. and have checked everything.
We’re really pleased to have reached a point of having an offer to take to members without too much of a delay. Ratification meetings will probably commence on 17 August with voting running simultaneously through to 23 August.
We have another day of negotiations with Plunket on 16 September after members rejected their 2.5% pay offer almost unanimously. The primary focus of this day of negotiations will be to present feedback from members regarding their previous offer and try to move Plunket from their lowball position.
Sexual Wellbeing members have voted to strike. We have issued a strike notice for a strike commencing on 14 September. However, we have secured a mediation and have withdrawn the notice as a demonstration of our genuine good faith approach to negotiations. We had mediation today.
We finally heard back from HCNZ after our initiation a month ago. We have pestered them constantly since initiation to set dates and sign a BPA. They said they will respond soon…
The Corrections working groups are making their recommendations – this work came out of last year’s bargaining round, with working groups on violence and aggression, Māori workers, on-call and the new progression steps for ENs and senior nurses. We’ve now got the recommendations from all bar one of the working groups and are hoping to hear back formally from each in September prior to us initiating bargaining.
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Aged Residential Care
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NZNO's MetLife bargaining team: From L-R: Tanya Oomen Angela Miller, Jeremy Alvez (front row) Vai Finau and Reina Picare.
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MetLife
We are in bargaining with your employer this week, its tough going in this economic environment, but your bargaining team in good spirits. We will keep you informed of any progress we make.
Radius
We are in bargaining next Tuesday and Wednesday in Auckland. Emily Connelly (Potter) and Fenu Ioane (Waipuna) will be representing members on the bargaining team. We will be in touch with members next week to update you.
Summerset
We will be in bargaining again with Summerset on 28 September in Wellington. 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.
Summerset delegates in Tamaki will be attending training together this month.
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.
Bupa Senior Nurses
Thank you to Senior Nurses for filling out our claims survey. We have tentatively booked 23 October for our 2026 negotiations.
Heritage
Heritage delegates: You have an important role in representing members on workplace health and safety matters. If your Health and Safety Committee meets each month and you are not being invited to attend, you can request participation through your Worker Participation Agreement.
Read agreement here.
Bupa
The pay rate uplift for members will be included in the pay run effective 31/08/2026 and paid to employees on 17th 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 17th 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.
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: Time for a System That Works
The experience of taking our Pay equity claims through the current framework is telling us where the system is working and where there are problems that need to be addressed.
Some of the challenges are not about the work of establishing whether roles have been undervalued, they are barrier by bureaucracy: access to information, funding, implementation and who is responsible for making sustainable pay equity outcomes possible.
These issues make the process lengthy, complex and resource intensive. That matters because a legal right to pursue pay equity is only useful if there is a workable pathway to achieving it.
The current claims are providing important evidence about what that pathway looks like in practice and are contributing to the wider discussion about how pay equity should work in Aotearoa. Members and claimants are understandably looking for updates on their individual claims. Work is continuing, and more specific information about progress and next steps will be provided in the next fortnight
There is also a bigger question to consider, particularly in an election year: if the current system is not delivering pay equity simply and sustainably, what needs to change?
That is ultimately a political question.
Legislation, funding and employment settings all have a role in making pay equity work in practice. The experience of these claims should be used to build a system that is clearer, fairer and capable of delivering sustainable pay equity outcomes.
Pay equity remains an important issue for members, the work underway now is helping identify what needs to change to make the right to pay equity work in practice and what political commitments are needed to make this happen.
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Private Hospitals and Hospice Sector
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SECTOR-WIDE
National Delegates Committee
Our National Delegates Committee met on 1 September to start planning our strategic priorities for 2027. The committee wants to survey all members to identify your priorities for next year. Look out for the survey in the coming weeks.
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HOSPICE
Arohanui
We had planned to return to negotiations on Monday 14 September, but the employer has asked us to postpone. We are looking at new dates.
Hospice MECA: Rotorua, Taupō, Eastern Bay of Plenty and Marlborough
Eastern Bay of Plenty members have received an amended offer that includes some backpay. We will run a survey over the weekend to vote on the proposal.
Rotorua is challenging our ability to vary the collective agreement for the other sites. It has also not improved its offer of 0% and 0.5% over a two-year term.
Mercy
The Board is considering our counterproposal.
North Haven
We notified management that members had rejected its offer. We are meeting with management today, 11 September, to find a way forward.
Taranaki
We expect to reconvene negotiations shortly.
Te Omanga
We attended negotiations on Thursday 10 September. Your negotiation team is considering the next steps. We will update members directly next week.
PRIVATE AND NGO HOSPITALS
ABI/Evolve Rehabilitation
Please contact us immediately if you:
- Are a Rehabilitation Assistant
- Were an NZNO member on 20 April 2026
- Had not received a pay increase for one or two years before the new increase
- And do not receive a lump-sum payment in the new few weeks.
Braemar
Our petition for a better and fairer deal has exceeded our expectations. The team is meeting today to discuss the next steps in our campaign. If you have not already signed the petition, please let us know.
We have mediation booked for 14 October.
Crest
We are organising another date for negotiations.
Evolution
The negotiation team is meeting this week to discuss the priorities identified through member meetings and our survey. We have developed a plan and will soon seek members’ endorsement of our final draft claims.
Negotiations begin on 21 and 22 September.
Grace
We are returning to negotiations on Friday 18 September.
Negotiations have been delayed and our patience is running out. We need a simple and clear answer from the company, without further delays. TSU members at Grace recently secured a 5% pay increase for one year, but only after voting for strike action and issuing strike notice. Their result shows that Grace moved when members demonstrated they were prepared to strike.
We believe NZNO members now need to consider escalating our action. We are surveying members about what action you would be willing to take if we do not receive an improved and satisfactory offer: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SFVB7RV
Please complete the survey before 8am on Monday 14 September.
The pay increase in the company’s current offer is below the rise in the cost of living. This means staff would lose spending power at a time when household costs remain high.
Kensington
We had planned to report back on the company’s offer. However, the company asked us to delay the meetings because of sickness at work. We are now arranging alternative dates.
Southern Cross Rotorua
We are changing the dates for our admin, CSSD and AT meetings, claims endorsement and negotiations because of sickness. We will be in touch with new dates soon.
St George’s
We have a new offer to bring to members. Please join us at ratification meetings next Thursday 17 September and Friday 18 September. Check your email and noticeboard for meeting times.
INDEPENDENT MATERNITY
Auckland Birthcare
Our claims survey has closed, we have recruited a new delegate, and our team is discussing the claims today. We are looking at negotiation dates in late October.
PRIVATE HEALTH
New Zealand Clinical Research
We have finished reviewing the individual employment agreement against the collective agreement. We will send a proposal to the company early next week.
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Our leaders speak: President Anne Daniels – Vote for Health: Healthy housing for all
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Housing is a critical social determinant of health. It is also a political football reflected in a government system that is set up to fail the homeless and those who are experiencing severe housing deprivation.
Healthy housing for all can be achieved however, if there is a cross party, long term, agreement to do so. As we get closer to the election, being cognisant of the issues that are contributing to a managed decline in health (Managed-Decline-Final.pdf), will help us all decide which party has the policies that can clinch our vote.
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Healthy housing is affordable, suitable, secure and a human right. Research shows that 85% of ill health arises from poor social determinants of health. Housing, as one of the key social determinants of health, is a major contributing factor to preventable ill
health. But home ownership has been declining for the past 30 years, from a high of about 78% in the 1980s to about 55% today. Furthermore, more than 1.5 million New Zealanders now rent, that is about one in every three people.
The quality of housing is strongly associated with tenure, as rental housing is generally older, colder, damper and mouldier than owner-occupied housing. BRANZ research has shown that private rental properties are three times more likely to be cold and damp than owner-occupied homes. Māori, Pacific, disabled and low-income people with lower rates of homeownership are more likely to be exposed to these poorer rental housing conditions and consequently have higher levels of potentially avoidable housing-related hospitalisations.
Housing focused interventions and programmes such as affordable rent, insulation, heat pump and heating cost subsidies, provide a sustainable and long-term strategy to bridge the gap between housing and health, leading to improved patient population outcomes and reduced costs. In 2018, 28,000 children and 54,000 adults were admitted to hospital for potentially avoidable hospitalisations linked to poor housing. The average cost of each hospitalisation is about $17,000. That equates to approximately $1.4bn annually in 2018. It will be much more now due to the rising rate of homelessness and deprived housing – women, children and older people living in cars or couch surfing. This does not include the costs of health inequity.
Health inequities between Māori and non-Māori adults cost $863.3million per year. Direct costs of $39.9 million per year included costs from ambulatory sensitive hospitalisations and outpatient care, with cost savings from underutilisation of primary care. Indirect costs of $823.4 million per year came from years of life lost and lost wages.
The 2024/25 New Zealand Health Budget was approximately $27bn. Reducing housing related hospitalisations and politically determined structured health inequities would save a great deal more than $3bn a year which is not inconsequential. But the human story is missing from all these facts and figures. A recent Facebook post outlined a heartbreaking story of a homeless man (Stuart a pseudonym) helped by another who is a member of a Community Housing Group. Stuart is one of 6000 people who lack accommodation on any given night in New Zealand. Another 100,000 people in New Zealand are experiencing severe housing deprivation.
Without help, Stuart would not have been able to do the multiple journeys across his home city, over multiple days to get the necessary paperwork done in a system embedded with multiple ‘hoops to jump through’. The result was a tiny room with one bed and nothing else, in a boarding house for $280 a week. The accommodation took up most of his benefit of $372 a week. Whether it ended up being a good fit, is questionable. For many, like Stuart, the increasing difficulty in getting a job that pays enough to live a healthy life, adds to the daily struggle.
Government systems are supposed to help not hinder those in need. However, it seems that the relationship between the state and the people it governs could be seen as abusive. If that seems a step too far, we only need to look at the recent Coalition government policy that will force the homeless to ‘move on’ or be fined/jailed. The draft law has been criticised as it criminalises poverty and homelessness but does not address the underlying issues described above.
The draft law also reflects a shift in government power. Hannah Arendt argued that genuine power rests on collective support and acting together, whereas violence and abuse are instrumental and appear when power is in jeopardy. The coercion of the same people is used to suppress dissent and is often captured by those with narrow interests. The challenge for a democratic state is to keep such policies subordinated to law and answerable to the people over whom it is used. Some 98% of select committee submissions to the draft law, were against it. Hopefully, the government will listen to the people. If they don’t we all have a choice. Enroll and vote on the 7 November 2026.
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North Shore student nurse Shimee Araguas talks to 1News at the Vote for Health: Nurses Speak Out About What’s at Stake This Election meeting last week.
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Highlights from the past fortnight:
Nurses from Gisborne Hospital's emergency department strike
ThreeNews, 9 September 2026 (from 3:41 Login required)
Stuff, 10 September 2026
RNZ/Checkpoint, 9 September 2026
Paddy Gower has issues: investigates the dire state of our EDs
ThreeNow, 8 September 2026 (Three login required to view)
Middlemore Hospital nurses reportedly asked to work despite calling in sick
RNZ/NZ Herald, 8 September 2026
ED wait of 27.5 hours spotlights pressure on Waikato Hospital
The Post, 8 September 2026
'We are in a health care crisis' - Plunket nurses face chronic understaffing
Radio New Zealand, 7 September 2026
'Absolute chaos' at Gisborne Hospital ED as nurses struggle with staffing shortages
RNZ/1 News, 6 September 2026
Nurses speak of nightmare winter at North Shore Hospital
Radio New Zealand Audio, 4 September 2026
North Shore residents show support for nurses at public meeting
Radio New Zealand/Reo Irirangi, 3 September 2026
Whangārei Hospital ED patients treated in corridors as flu surge strains staff
Northern Advocate, 31 August 2026
Some patients face 24-hour wait at Wellington Hospital emergency department
RNZ/Stuff.co.nz/TVNZ/1 News/New Zealand Herald/ODT, 30-31 August 2026
My three weeks in hospital: Why our health system can’t cope
1News, 27 August 2026
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Arms Act 2026 information for health practitioners
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Firearms Safety and Education New Zealand (FSE) replaces Te Tari Pūreke – Firearms Safety Authority on 23 September 2026.
Starting from 23 September 2026, health practitioners will be interacting with the new regulator, but in all other respects very little is changing for health practitioners.
You’ll begin seeing this new name, and visual identity, and you’ll be able to find information on their new website firearmssafety.govt.nz.
Any previously saved email and web addresses you have for the old firearms regulator should redirect you automatically to the new entity.
When you must consider notifying Firearms Safety and Education New Zealand
Your obligation as a health practitioner is described in Section 373 of the new Arms Act 2026 (previously Arms Act 1983 s92).
As previously, you must consider notifying Firearms Safety and Education New Zealand if you have reason to believe:
a) your patient is a firearms licence holder (or you have reason to believe they are a licence holder); and
b) you consider the patient’s health condition may impact their safety or the safety of the public if they continue to use or possess firearms.
You must consider notifying Firearms Safety and Education New Zealand as soon as practicable:
Firearms Safety and Education New Zealand may require the licence holder to undergo further medical assessment by another independent health practitioner, or they may ask the licence holder to surrender their firearms licence.
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2026 AGM and Conference
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Representatives from member structures gather in Rotorua for the 2026 AGM and Conference in less than two weeks (22/23 September 2026).
Questions or feedback on the AGM papers must be forwarded to representatives from your Local Organising Groups, National Delegates Committee, College and Section Committee, the National Student Unit, or Te Rūnanga.
Find AGM documents and other information about the conference here.
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Health care not warfare. No frigates! National campaign launch
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With the cost of living dominating the pre-election news and our health system and its workforce struggling at so many levels, the Government wants to spend between $22-$44 billion on new frigates over the next 30 years, and waste billions of dollars on
out-of-date warships.
This decision means in 2027 we will be tied into USA’s plans to wage war on China - currently our largest trading partner.
Please join Just Defence and friends to launch the national campaign to stop the buying of very expensive new navy warships.
Aotearoa New Zealand can make much better use of Government funds than funnelling billions into the military and weapons industry.
Launch venues and dates:
AUCKLAND
When: Sunday, 13 September, 3.30pm
Where: Kauri Hall, Devonport Community House
Supported by Greenpeace Aotearoa, Anti-War Aotearoa, NZNO
WELLINGTON
When: Wednesday, 16 September 12.30pm
Where: outside Defence House
Supported by Peace Action Wellington
CHRISTCHURCH
When: week of 22-26 September tbc
Where: tbc
Photo credit: NZ Defence Force
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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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Venue: Rydges Christchurch, 30 Latimer Square, Christchurch
Dates: 9-10 October 2026
Theme: Protecting our future in Primary Health - Stronger Together
Mehemea ka moemoeā ahau, ko ahau anake. Mehemea ka moemoeā tātou, ka taea e tātou.
If I dream, I dream alone. If we dream as a collective, we can achieve our dream.
~ Na, Princess Te Puea Herangi
We have stellar speakers coming from all over Aotearoa to inspire and motivate you and update you on insights and trends for the future in PHC. They will be speaking on current important issues for PHC. This symposium is an excellent opportunity for professional networking and to be updated on Insights and trends for the future.
Visit the Conference website for more information
Register to attend the College of Primary Health Care Nurses Symposium
now
2026 AGM
Date: Saturday 10 October 2026
Time: TBC nearer the date
Venue: Rydges Hotel, 30 Latimer Square, Christchurch
Online participation: Link to come.
The NZNO College of Primary Healthcare Nurses AGM is coming up fast.
AGM papers will be added as they come to hand and will include information about proposed honoraria.
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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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Aotearoa College of Diabetes Nurses
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NZCTU: Workers must be at the centre of all AI policy
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New Zealand Council of Trade Unions Te Kauae Kaimahi welcomes Labour’s AI policy,
which will support a future where technology works for people.
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“Artificial intelligence tools are becoming widely used in many industries. As a country, we need to ensure that working people benefit from, and are not harmed by, AI in the workplace,” says NZCTU Te Kauae Kaimahi President Sandra Grey.
“If the right tools are implemented through proper engagement with the workforce, then they can help to improve job satisfaction”, says Grey.
“But what we are seeing in Aotearoa and around the world is that many firms are forcing AI upon workers, often in ways that undermine job quality and threaten wages and job security”, says Grey
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ICN: Nursing shortages require workforce policy solutions
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The global nursing shortage cannot be solved simply by encouraging more people to
enter the profession, according to a new evidence brief from the Global Nursing Workforce Centre (GNWC), a joint initiative of the International Council of Nurses (ICN) and TruMerit®.
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Drawing on research from 42 countries, the brief, The Attractiveness of Nursing for Prospective and Current Nursing Students, finds that the factors influencing people to choose nursing are often the same ones that determine whether they stay.
Working conditions, compensation, professional respect, career development opportunities, workplace experiences and the ability to provide quality care all shape nursing attractiveness to current nurses as well as potential recruits.
The findings suggest that countries seeking to strengthen their nursing workforce must focus not only on recruitment, but on making nursing a career people can realistically choose, enter, develop in and remain in over the long term.
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Workers helping workers, one cup at a time
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UnionAID launched the Solidarity Brewed campaign with Fairtrader Good Fortune Coffee
last month.
$10 from every bag of Solidarity blend sold will be donated by Good Fortune Coffee to UnionAID projects
UnionAID is a New Zealand charity supporting working people across Asia Pacific to build unions and change their own lives — not traditional aid, but unions and cooperatives led by workers themselves.
As a Living Wage Employer and registered Fairtrader, Good Fortune Coffee shares the values of UnionAID and supports its work to build a “better world” through “better work” in all countries.
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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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Staff raised safety concerns as well as allegations of bullying and harassment at the NHS trust in the UK. Story below.
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Hundreds of NHS staff report safety fears and bullying at Manchester University
Foundation Trust
UK, The Mirror, 5 September 2026
- Nurses must take lead on governing the AI that's changing their workflows
US, Healthcare IT News, 9 September 2026
- Digital program reduces burnout and anxiety in distressed nurses
US, Medical Science News, 9 September 2026
- SSM St. Mary’s nurses in Madison file federal labor complaint against health system
USA, wpr.org, 9 September 2026
Europe Promised to Protect Its Nurses From Hazardous Drugs and Has Not Delivered
Germany, Social Europe, 7 September 2026
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