Aged care faces crisis as nurses paid less than DHB peers

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Aged care faces crisis as nurses paid less than DHB peers

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The struggles and shortfalls of the country's aged care sector have been laid bare in a new review into Covid-19 clusters in rest homes. More than half of New Zealand's Covid-19 deaths have been in rest homes - with five of the 16 clusters at aged care facilities. The Ministry of Health review found the virus was brought into facilities by infected staff or visitors, and rest homes weren't familiar with concepts such as outbreaks, clusters, probable versus proven cases, and key terminology. T...

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Date created

11 June 2020

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOYWvDIkJ9s&feature=youtube_gdata_player

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RNZ / Radio NZ / Radio New Zealand / health / Lisa Owen / Checkpoint / News / New Zealand / COVID-19 / Coronavirus / aged care

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