Health / Employment

Hospital nurses leaving amid 'relentless and desperate' work

07:47 am on 28 June 2022

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A nurse at Wellington Hospital is describing the pressure of work as relentless and desperate.

She knows nurses who have already left this year - and she's thinking of joining them.

This comes as the hospital defers most non-urgent care and planned surgeries, and the DHB pays for GP appointments to divert people from its busy emergency department.

Rosie Gordon reports.