NZNO member nurses, health care assistants, midwives, kaiawhina hauora and student nurses took action across Aotearoa for increased health funding and safe staffing on Thursday 9 May

Read our media release: Official nurse unsafe staffing figures genuinely alarming.

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Media coverage of our Day of Action

• Nurses and kaiawhina across Aotearoa brave chill winds to call for safer staffing - Kaitiaki Nursing New Zealand  
• "It's heart breaking" - Nurses and kaiawhina to rally across Aotearoa for safe staffing  - Kaitiaki Nursing New Zealand   
• Better staffing ratios called for Otago Daily Times, 10 May 2024 
• Medical staff stage rally Wairarapa Times Age, 10 May 2024 
• Nurses rally against unsafe shifts Stuff, 10 May 2024 
• Nurses latest medics to join protest line Waikato Times, 9 May 2024
• Nurses protest, warn patients being left in pain, soiled beds due to staffing shortages RNZ, 10 May 2024 
• Nurses call for safer work environments Star News, 9 May 2024 
• Nurses rally for more health funding Newstalk ZB, 9 May 2024 (from 1.13) 
• Whangārei nurses say health crisis not over, safer staffing needed NZ Herald, 9 May 2024 
• Nurses rally across the country amid staffing 'crisis' 1News/TVNZ, 9 May 2024 
• Nurses rally against systemic unsafe understaffing The Post/Stuff, 9 May 2024 
• Nurses call for more health funding RNZ, 9 May 2024 
• New Zealand nurses declare 'Day of Action', rallies taking place across the country Newshub, 9 May 2024 
• Nurses to rally amid staffing crisis ODT, 8 May 2024
• Unsafe nurse staffing figures 'alarming' Stuff, 8 May 2024
• Mental health facility's ward only fully staffed for six shifts in 2023 RNZ, 8 May 2024
• Nurse staffing figures in New Zealand hospitals 'genuinely alarming' RNZ, Newshub 8 May 2024
• Nurses rally for funding The Post/Stuff, 9 May 2024
• Nurses to rally amid staffing crisis Otago Daily Times, 8 May 2024

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Photos from our Day of Action

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