{"id":633938,"date":"2026-10-18T01:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T01:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/633938\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T01:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T01:50:10","slug":"doctors-callback-from-retirement-reveals-depth-of-health-crisis-nurses-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/633938\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor\u2019s callback from retirement reveals depth of health crisis: Nurses union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">Since his retirement, a dozen staff have left or given notice, including four GPs, among whom was the last remaining GP for the clinic, where 4500 patients were enrolled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">Taitoko Health is run by OmniHealth. Its clinics \u2013 owned through the Tararua Health Group \u2013 were put on a temporary freeze by Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora over concerns about workloads and patient safety.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Taitoko Health was run by OmniHealth. Its clinics were frozen by Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora over workload and patient safety concerns.\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Taitoko Health was run by OmniHealth. Its clinics were frozen by Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora over workload and patient safety concerns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">A New Zealand Nurses Union delegate said this was a sign of how bad the health crisis had become.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">The crisis would continue if the Government did not put more money into the industry, the delegate said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cAll sectors are facing chronic staffing shortages. In primary care the funding shortages are appalling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FxSPvgIxedhFU\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe health system is in a desperate state and needs an urgent overhaul. It begins with properly funding primary care services.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since his retirement, a dozen staff have left or given notice, including four GPs, among whom was the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[310589,537,92081,3528,71,134,60,111,43,139,9709,69,1118,23277,294,1517,4483],"class_list":["post-633938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-callback","tag-crisis","tag-depth","tag-doctors","tag-from","tag-health","tag-moore","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nurses","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-rachel","tag-retirement","tag-reveals","tag-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633938","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=633938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}