17 Sep 2024

Nursing jobs "ghosted" as Health NZ cuts costs

From Morning Report, 7:16 am on 17 September 2024

Nurses working in chronically short-staffed hospitals say staff who go on leave, get sick or quit are often not replaced. Health New Zealand insists recruitment has continued while it's been revising its budgets to find millions of dollars in savings - but frontline workers say job ads and even verbal offers have been "ghosted'. Ruth Hill reports.