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A woman with a chronic pain condition says she wasn't treated like a human being when forced to sit in urine-soaked clothes for six hours in Wellington's
A chronically-ill toddler was unduly kept in hospital for months and her mother asked to abandon Covid-19 isolation to come in and nurse her. The child picked up the virus. DHB failures and a staff shortage are being blamed.
Frustrations over pay talks have boiled over, the physicists' union says, leading to three days of strikes and two weeks of work to rule.It's unclear how just what the impact will be, but life-preserving services will continue.
Hutt Valley DHB has strongly refuted a former nurse's claim the region could have faced a Delta outbreak due to poor infection control at its hospital.
About 30,000 nurses, healthcare assistants and midwives in public hospitals around New Zealand voted earlier this month to hold another three nationwide strikes. The members of the New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) held an eight-hour strike on June 9 after rejecting a derisory pay rise offer of just 1.38 percent. The District Health Boards’ offer was effectively a pay cut relative to inflation and contained nothing to address the staffing crisis in hospitals. The Labour Party-led government announced a wage freeze in May for the next three years for the vast majority of public secto...