In Tauranga, Whakat\u0101ne, Taup\u014d and Rotorua, rallies and pickets are being held at:<\/p>\n
\u2013 Tauranga Hospital, Cameron Rd frontage, 1pm-2pm;<\/p>\n
\u2013 Whakat\u0101ne Hospital, Garaway St frontage, 1pm-2pm;<\/p>\n
\u2013 Rotorua Hospital, gathering at the hospital\u2019s main entrance at 1pm, health workers will march to picket at the corner of Arawa St and Ranolf St roundabout from 1.15pm-2.15pm;<\/p>\n
\u2013 Taup\u014d Hospital, gathering at the main entrance at 1pm and walking to the roadside entrance at 38 K\u014dtare St, to picket from 1.15pm to 2.15pm.<\/p>\n
Life-preserving service staff levels have been agreed between the PSA and Health New Zealand for the duration of the strike.<\/p>\n
Since the \u201cmega-strike\u201d on October 23, the parties have attended mediation through the Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment, but no settlement has been reached.<\/p>\n
Should the strike action go ahead, Health NZ said all hospitals and facilities would remain open.<\/p>\n
Health NZ\u2019s people and culture and health and safety executive director, Robyn Shearer, said it acknowledges the strike action by some mental health and public health nurses who are members of the PSA union on Friday, November 28, between 1 and 5pm.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe would like to reassure the public that plans are in place to ensure the continued delivery of hospital and community health services during the strike.<\/p>\n
\u201cPatient safety will remain our priority throughout the strike.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hospitals, emergency departments, mental health units and most community services will remain open during the strike, with union members supporting our non-striking staff in providing life-preserving services, Shearer said.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur crisis and acute mental health services will be open, but some routine clinics will be closed, and some home visits will not go ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n
Anyone with a hospital or community appointment on Friday was reminded to attend unless they have been contacted directly to reschedule.<\/p>\n
Any appointments that were deferred due to the strike will be rescheduled to the next available opportunity.<\/p>\n
Other advice for all patients during the strikes was:<\/p>\n
\u2013 if you need emergency care, come to the ED as normal;<\/p>\n
\u2013 people requiring non-emergency care should contact their GP or call Healthline on 0800 611 116 in the first instance;<\/p>\n
\u2013 patients in hospital will receive safe care;<\/p>\n
\u2013 unless you are contacted directly, please attend any scheduled outpatient or community appointment or treatment;<\/p>\n
\u2013 people with non-urgent mental health needs should contact their GP or call or text 1737, which is the national mental health and addictions helpline.<\/p>\n
\u201cLooking forward, we believe further bargaining is the best way forward to resolve outstanding issues,\u201d Shearer said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Tauranga, Whakat\u0101ne, Taup\u014d and Rotorua, rallies and pickets are being held at: \u2013 Tauranga Hospital, Cameron Rd…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[95,682,4999,134,527,2241,78,111,139,69,90,104521,26346,13084,5679,17524,1327,1324,4485,1852,1227,1961,61,686,2240,4576,4478],"class_list":["post-158281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-and","tag-being","tag-friday","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-hospital","tag-in","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-pickets","tag-planned","tag-prepare","tag-psa","tag-rallies","tag-rotorua","tag-stop","tag-strike","tag-taup","tag-tauranga","tag-this","tag-to","tag-week","tag-whakatne","tag-work","tag-workers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}