Entries for February 2011

Cancer nurses have endorsed associate professor John Carter’s call for greater use of nurse practitioners (NP) in cancer care. Speaking on Morning Report this week, associate professor Carter, who is also clinical leader of Capital and Coast’s Blood and Cancer Centre, talked of a severely stretched...

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The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) warns that the “mega-treaty”, the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA), is a potential threat to New Zealand’s health system and urges the government to release the text of the agreement. NZNO president Nano Tunnicliff is critical of the secrecy surr...

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The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) believes the Prime Minister’s speech to Parliament today (February 8) is a thinly veiled agenda for privatisation and cuts to services. “His speech is long on rhetoric but short on real action to address the growing inequalities in our society,” says NZNO ...

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The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) sends it congratulations to Horowhenua’s newest health clinic, the “Waiting-List Clinic”, which opens its door today. Central Primary Health Organisation (PHO) clinical director and director of nursing at MidCentral DHB, Chiquita Hansen says that a shortag...

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