Today’s Union News features extensive coverage of issues within the health system, with unions (especially NZNO) being quoted in multiple articles.
Union coverage
- ASMS – Severe specialist doctor shortage at Palmerston North Hospital | 1News
- PSA – Health NZ shelves major hospital restructure | RNZ
- NZNO, PSA – ‘No pulse, no pulse’: The frantic moments as staff failed to revive patient found in ED toilet | Stuff
- NZNO – Waikato Hospital ED death: Mum and daughter describe chaos as staff tried to resuscitate man | RNZ
- NZNO – ED death: Mum and daughter describe scenes of ‘absolute chaos’ | 1News
- NZNO – Witnesses describe chaos as man collapses at Waikato Hospital emergency department | NZ Herald
- ASMS, NZNO – Why ED wait times are so long – and how that ramps up the risk of death | Stuff
- NZNO – Waikato Hospital emergency department witness says staff ‘set up to fail’ on night man died | NZ Herald
- NZNO – Leak forces repairs at Middlemore Hospital’s ageing maternity block | NZ Herald
- ASMS, NZNO, PSA – Health budget shortfall: Unions warn of up to $600m funding gap – Newsroom (paywalled)
- PSA – Union warns of multibillion-dollar hit from National’s KiwiSaver pledge | RNZ