Cate Macintosh

4 weeks ago | thepost.co.nz | Wei Shao |Cate Macintosh

Jul 5, 2023 | kaitiaki.org.nz | Cate Macintosh

The boost in placements will start with 130 extra places next semester, and a further 700 from 2024, Minister of Health Ayesha Verrall said in a statement on Sunday. “In this year’s July and August intake we’re making it possible for 130 additional students to commence their nursing studies nationwide.”The clinical placements announcement was the first action from a national health workforce plan, launched by the minister on Tuesday, to address a “confronting” deficit in health care staff.

Jul 1, 2023 | kaitiaki.org.nz | Cate Macintosh

Provision of nutritious food for nightshift staff and psychological support following adverse events, are among a wide range of measures to retain and grow the health workforce, announced yesterday. Speaking to media about the national health workforce plan to fill 8000 missing health-care staff vacancies, Minister of Health Ayesha Verrall said some of the gaps were “confronting”. Of about 8000 health-care workers who are missing from the system right now, 4800 of those are nurses.

Jun 30, 2023 | kaitiaki.org.nz | Cate Macintosh

President Anne Daniels said the constitution had become unwieldy, impossible to use and no longer reflected the organisation, its values and aspirations. “We need to have an organisation that is fit for purpose and serves the needs of our members and it hasn’t done that for a long time.”Members’ views will contribute to the development of key concepts for a new constitution, to be drafted and voted on at the 2024 Annual General Meeting (AGM).

Jun 26, 2023 | kaitiaki.org.nz | Cate Macintosh

It should have been a cause for celebration – $10 million to lift the pay of nursing staff who are delivering health care to “seriously unwell” Māori and Pacific people. Instead, in many cases, delivery of pay disparity funding has not flowed through to those it is intended for – nursing staff, and NZNO members. One problem is the Government’s decision to exclude general practice nurses employed by Māori, iwi and Pacific providers from the first tranche of funding.