Nurses’ pay is a glass half empty: Resthomes run deficits to pay nurses more, say funding is short

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Nurses’ pay is a glass half empty: Resthomes run deficits to pay nurses more, say funding is short

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New Zealand Aged Care Association deputy chair Warick Dunn says providers raised nurses’ pay to avoid an ‘absolute crisis’ [Image: Supplied]
An aged-care leader says his resthome business is one of many in the red after paying nurses more to avoid losing them to public hospitals. The cha