5:07 pm today

Health NZ puts quota on number of jobs can hire - doctor

From Checkpoint, 5:07 pm today

Te Whatu Ora has ordered a hiring freeze for all non-frontline jobs, and has repeatedly denied it will affect any clinical roles. But one specialist, who doesn't want to be named, said a hospital job he's applied for has gone unfilled for months, while costly temporary locum doctors haved plugged the gap, Luka Forman reports.