{"id":4900,"date":"2023-05-26T05:13:52","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T17:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=4900"},"modified":"2023-05-26T05:14:16","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T17:14:16","slug":"pay-boost-for-thousands-of-gp-and-community-nurses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=4900","title":{"rendered":"Pay boost for thousands of GP and community nurses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 6000 GP and community nurses will be eligible for an average 8 percent pay rise from 1 July to address pay disparities with hospital nurses.<\/p>\n<p>Making the announcement yesterday, Minister of Health Ayesha Verrall said nurses with the same skills and experiences should receive comparable pay, and the pay bump would address that.<\/p>\n<p>Nurses in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/487080\/thousands-of-nurses-to-get-pay-boost-in-april\">aged care, hospice, home and community support, and kaupapa M\u0101ori and Pasifika providers<\/a>\u00a0had their pay improved earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>But there was frustration at the time that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/487102\/family-doctors-fear-losing-staff-as-gp-nurses-not-included-in-pay-parity-package\">nurses working in GP clinics had been left out<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Verrall said yesterday the government had agreed with Te Whatu Ora&#8217;s updated advice to include practice nurses because a pay gap had emerged with Te Whatu Ora nurses since the initiative was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/479620\/health-staff-working-outside-of-hospitals-set-to-get-a-pay-increase\">first announced in November 2022<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This funding will also lift pay rates for about 1,300 nurses and kai\u0101whina who work in Family Planning, Plunket\/Well Child Tamariki Ora, school nursing services, mental health and addiction, rural hospitals, telehealth, community care services and the Youth One Stop Shop,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These nurses are in addition to the 8,160 nurses and kai\u0101whina who became eligible to receive pay rises under this initiative from the start of April, which means about 14,250 nurses and kai\u0101whina in total will benefit from this initiative.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 6000 GP and community nurses will be eligible for an average 8 percent pay rise from 1 July to address pay disparities with hospital nurses. Making the announcement yesterday, Minister of Health Ayesha Verrall said nurses with the same skills and experiences should receive comparable pay, and the pay bump would address that. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4900"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4903,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4900\/revisions\/4903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}