{"id":634793,"date":"2026-10-19T00:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T00:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/634793\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T00:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T00:44:10","slug":"are-minimum-nurse-to-patient-ratios-the-fix-to-new-zealands-nursing-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/634793\/","title":{"rendered":"Are minimum nurse-to-patient ratios the fix to New Zealand&#8217;s nursing shortage?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coming out of a difficult winter period for hospitals, New Zealand\u2019s nursing shortage has become an election issue.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand currently uses Care Capacity Demand Management, which calculates staffing requirements according to patient needs, to determine nursing numbers.<\/p>\n<p>But Andrew Jull, Professor of Nursing at the University of Auckland, argues the evidence from NZ and overseas now makes a strong case for putting minimum nurse-to-patient ratios into law.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jull told Kerre Woodham the advantage to having minimum nurse-to-patient ratios is it stops the government from stopping the flow of nurses, allowing for a consistency of health investment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>LISTEN ABOVE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coming out of a difficult winter period for hospitals, New Zealand\u2019s nursing shortage has become an election issue.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[134,311007,111,43,139,9709,311008,69,6293],"class_list":["post-634793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-health","tag-kerrewoodham","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nurses","tag-nursingshortage","tag-nz","tag-patients"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634793","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=634793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}