Nurses

The long-running hospital nurses' pay dispute is over but there is scepticism about how fast hospital staffing levels will improve. One emergency department nurse, who wants to be identified as Julia… Audio

Nurses have endorsed the fifth pay offer from DHBs, which includes pay rises of between 12.5 and 16 percent, and strengthens commitments to safe staffing levels. But not everyone is seeing it as a… Video, Audio

Nurses have settled their long running pay and staffing row with the country's district health boards. RNZ Health Correspondent Karen Brown. Audio

A nurse tells John Campbell she was left alone for 50 minutes to keep a newborn baby alive as her calls for help went unanswered. Video, Audio

A nurse and moderator of the Facebook page 'NZ, please hear our voice' says an Accord on safe staffing will just tell health managers what nurses already know - that they're understaffed. Video, Audio

Health Minister David Clark has formed an Accord, to be signed by the ministry, nurses' union and DHBs, to address nurses' safe staffing levels. Video, Audio

The Nurses Organisation is recommending its members accept a revised offer from DHBs which it says addresses issues over safe staffing and equity. Audio

Nurses Organisation Associate Industrial Services Manager is Glenda Alexander. She talks to John Campbell about why NZNO is recommending the offer. Video, Audio

DHB spokesperson Jim Green joins Checkpoint live to discuss the latest offer for nurses. He speaks to John Campbell. Video, Audio

Nurses and their district health boards will head back to the negotiating table on Tuesday following the national nurses' strike on the 12 July. Neither group will talk about the details ahead of the… Audio

The nation's nurses were back bargaining with the DHBs today about their wages and conditions. Audio

Health Minister David Clark has refuted claims by the nurses union that some wards were better staffed during the strike than they are normally, and reiterated there is no more money in the coffers. Audio

The nurses held a 24 hour strike yesterday after turning down an offer of pay rises of between 12.5 and 15 percent and 500 extra full-time nurses. The Health Minister David Clark and the Acting PM… Audio

Nurses rejected the latest pay offer from their District Health Board employers, and now 30,000 are on strike for 24 hours. Video, Audio

While Hawke's Bay Hospital had to call on an emergency agreement to get four extra nurses on wards today, other DHBs said they were relatively quiet despite the strike. Video, Audio

Nurses went on strike today, despite their union recommending they accept the DHBs' latest offer. Why did they strike? What do they hope to achieve? John Campbell asked them when he joined them on… Video, Audio

Up to 30,000 nurses are walking off the job in public hospitals around the country today, in the first national nurses' strike in three decades. They are on strike now Audio