Our vision and the impact we want achieve in the next three years is summed up in the new Hospice New Zealand Strategic Plan2023-2026. This comes after much consultation and engagement with hospice leaders around the country, the Hospice New Zealand Board and with patients and whānau.
Hospice CEO Wayne Naylor speaks on TV3’s AM Show and challenges the new Government not to keep putting ‘bandaids’ on the issue of pay equity for nurses in the community and primary sectors. “One-off bits of money don’t provide a sustainable way forward for our services and won’t fix the loss of our staff to Te Whatu Ora.” Wayne says while the primary and community sector got $200 million earlier in year to address pay disparity, this is very very l...
A dozen of Aotearoa New Zealand’s leading primary, community, and telehealth care organisations have come together, calling on political parties to commit to pay parity for their nursing and health care workers. “Collectively we represent services that support New Zealanders from cradle to grave. We’ve come together for the first time because we fear communities are missing out on critical health care,” says Fiona Kingsford, chief executive, Whānau Āwhina Plunket While the group wholeh...
Hospices around the country are welcoming a funding boost announced this week to ensure their nurses can be paid the same as hospital nurses. Te Whatu Ora has agreed an $11.5 million annual funding boost for hospices to help resolve the significant pay disparity for nurses working in the sector. The funding rolls out from 1 July as part of Te Whatu Ora’s commitment to reducing pay disparities in the funded community health sectors. “This is a huge boost for hospices and a very welcome inve...
In 2022 BNI and their members raised an incredible $331,052 for hospices across Aotearoa. We’re unbelievably grateful for this extraordinary contribution to palliative care. Since 2007, BNI® New Zealand and Te Kahu Pairuri o Aotearoa – Hospice New Zealand have proudly stood together as national partners, working together to help ensure hospice care remains free of charge for New Zealanders with a life limiting illness. Our partnership has gone from strength to strength, and over $3 mill...
Over three million of New Zealanders tend to feel anxious and uncomfortable when thinking about a loved one dying (69%). That’s according to a new Public Attitudes Research conducted by Hospice New Zealand. The research surveyed 1300 New Zealanders in Dec 2022 and Jan 2023. There were more Maori and rural people surveyed to ensure the sample fairly represented the New Zealand population. Death is all around us and often very close. In 2022, 82 % of New Zealanders had experienced the ...
Hospices around the country are welcoming a pay boost next week as Te Whatu Ora pay out the first $40 million to close the pay gap between nurses in primary and community providers and Te Whatu Ora employed nurses. 27 hospices will receive a share of around $1.8 million of this funding. While the additional funding will certainly be appreciated by hospices, and hopefully will go some way to resolving serious workforce shortages and recruitment challenges, Chief Executive of Hospice New Zealand, ...
Every couple of years Dilmah runs a promotion to raise money for hospice. During August-September 2022, Dilmah committed to donating 50c from each box of Extra Strength tea bags sold, raising an incredible $20,000 for Hospice New Zealand. We had the pleasure of meeting with Dilmah CEO, Dilhan Fernando and his son Amrit on their recent visit to New Zealand. Read more here We met at the Dilmah t-Lounge in Wellington where we were greeted with unmistakable Sri Lankan hospitality and of course d...
We do not think of hospitals as the ideal place for our friends or whānau or even for ourselves to die. And yet about one in three people will die in the busy acute hospital environment. How can we make that experience a bit more human and compassionate? Last year, Wellington Quilters gifted four large quilts to Wellington Hospital as part of the Capital & Coast DHB Te Wai Bereavement Programme. These quilts are draped over the mortuary trolley which alerts staff that something hugely signi...
We asked Dr Ross Drake to share one of his days with us. From meetings on the marae to complex pain telehealth consultations it’s a packed day providing interdisciplinary, integrated and collaborative care for children. And as Ross says, ” it reinforces to me the totally inadequate funding being provided by Health NZ to care for children requiring palliative care.” Read more here The day marked the beginning of a new week at the end of a long year. Off to the local supermarket ...
Salina Iupati, a PHD candidate researching community specialist palliative care services in Aotearoa, has recently completed a survey of all 32 hospices to understand the range of community hospice care and service they provide and the populations they serve. You can read the results of the survey, published recently in the NZ Medical Journal. We asked Salina to discuss her study with us at Te Kahu Pairuri o Aotearoa / Hospice New Zealand. Why motivated you to do this survey? We know the new hea...
