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Media Releases

The New Zealand Nurses Organisation produces media releases on topics of concern to nurses, midwives and the greater healthcare community.

On this page you can read NZNO's most recent media releases. Earlier releases are archived.

Media enquiries

Liz Robinson
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027 431 2617


25 Latest Articles

Entries for the 'Patient Safety' Category

26

Doing more with less doesn’t cut it when patient care is at stake

26 November 2012: The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) says that extensive discussion between unions and Waikato DHB has failed to reassure nurses and allied health staff that their work is taken seriously by the DHB. The DHB is proposing to cut eight staff at a specialist rehabilitation car...

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Posted in: Patient Safety, NZNO News
22

“Making our hospitals safer” report shows areas for improvement and innovation

22 November 2012: The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) welcomes the 2011/12 Serious and Sentinel events report “Making our hospitals safer”. The report contains the serious adverse events that have happened in hospitals over the past year. This year’s report shows that the ...

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Posted in: Nursing Shortages, Patient Safety, NZNO News
29

The Act protecting the safety of New Zealanders under threat: nurses say “no”!

26 October 2012: The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) is concerned that the Government is undertaking a sweeping review of the Act that regulates health professionals in New Zealand. The Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act (HPCAA) sets in place independent Councils for the sole purpo...

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Posted in: Patient Safety, Public Health, Health Policy
01

Commissioner Finding: Listen to Nurses

Listening to nurses is one of the keys to preventing tragedies like those that occurred at North Shore Hospital in 2007, according to the Health and Disability Commissioner’s report released today. The New Zealand Nurses Organisation wholeheartedly supports the Commissioner’s view. “Nurses are freq...

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Posted in: Patient Safety
23

Nurses Commit to Improving Hospital Safety

The second national report on serious and sentinel events is very sobering reading for nurses just as it is for the public. “This report pulls together and makes very visible the many tragic events that have happened to people in the care of nurses, doctors and other health professionals last year....

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Posted in: Patient Safety
05

NZNO Backs Call For More Hospital Beds

The New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) is welcoming comments from Ministry of Health who have suggested Auckland City Hospital expand its adult health service by more than half over the next six years after long struggling with overcrowding. Chief Executive, Geoff Annals is “Pleased to hear tha...

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Posted in: Patient Safety