Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group About 30,000 nurses, healthcare assistants and midwives at public hospitals across New Zealand held an eight-hour strike on June 9 to demand a decent pay offer and safe levels of staffing. Thousands of healthcare .
The Government is more focused on shuffling deckchairs than the critical health workforce shortage all DHBs are facing, National’s Associate Health spokesperson Simon Watts says. “New Zealand has a growing workforce shortage in our health system, .
About 30,000 public healthcare workers went on strike for the second time in three years, against the Labour Party-led government’s pay freeze and dangerous levels of understaffing.
MDMA, also known as ecstasy, is now the second most popular illicit substance in New Zealand and users are calling for ways to test drugs being sold to them.