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4 days ago |
rnz.co.nz | Lucy Xia
About 50 theatre nurses and healthcare assistants (HCAs) at Northland's Whangārei Hospital are striking on Tuesday over their ongoing pay dispute with Health New Zealand. The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) said perioperative nurses and HCAs from the surgical admission unit, theatre and post anaesthetic units would be taking turns to undertake three four-hour strikes, starting at 7am and ending at 7pm.
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4 days ago |
radionz.co.nz | Lucy Xia
About 50 theatre nurses and healthcare assistants (HCAs) at Northland's Whangārei Hospital are striking on Tuesday over their ongoing pay dispute with Health New Zealand. The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) said perioperative nurses and HCAs from the surgical admission unit, theatre and post anaesthetic units would be taking turns to undertake three four-hour strikes, starting at 7am and ending at 7pm.
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1 week ago |
rnz.co.nz | Lucy Xia
A woman who has had the first full knee replacement surgery in the Far North town of Kaitaia says being able to have the operation in her own community - supported by whanau - was a "therapeutic" and "holistic" experience. Kaitaia Hospital has recently become the first rural hospital in Northland to have capacity for knee replacement surgery - years after hip joint replacement surgery first became available in Kaitaia in 2018.
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1 week ago |
radionz.co.nz | Lucy Xia
A woman who has had the first full knee replacement surgery in the Far North town of Kaitaia says being able to have the operation in her own community - supported by whanau - was a "therapeutic" and "holistic" experience. Kaitaia Hospital has recently become the first rural hospital in Northland to have capacity for knee replacement surgery - years after hip joint replacement surgery first became available in Kaitaia in 2018.
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1 week ago |
radionz.co.nz | Lucy Xia
More than 200 senior doctors and dentists in Northland are striking for 24 hours over their ongoing pay dispute with Health New Zealand. The union representing them - the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists - said its 240 members in Te Tai Tokerau will be striking from 10am on Wednesday until 10am on Thursday. ASMS confirmed that 35-40 senior doctors would remain in hospitals to ensure life preserving services were maintained during the strike period.
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