From Newsgroup: nz.general
On 29 Jul 2025 23:18:27 GMT, Gordon <
Gordon@leaf.net.nz> wrote:
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/568412/health-nz-admits-it-can-t-afford-to-employ-all-nurses-wanting-work
In recent times there has been complaints that NZ is under a brain drain and >that the hospital system does not have enough nurses. Yet we have only 45%, >(323 of the 722) of the avaliable nurses being employed owing to lack of >funding.
NZ can hardly complain if the 55% go to Australia looking for work.
While health requires large amounts of money it does appear that NZ is on
the wrong track. Everyone has an interest in health.
The article cited has almost no detail. How did we come to train more
nurses than Health NZ could employ? Who funds that training?
The article does not cover whether Health NZ has too few nurses
(meaning nurse numbers are lower than needed because of financial
constraints).
RNZ needs to dig further and as a publicly-funded media organisation I
would expect better.
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