NZACA in the news
28 November
TVNZ – Health worker pay parity celebrated by Aged Care Association
RNZ – Aged Care Association on pay bump for staff
Rotorua Now – Health staff set to get a pay increase
14 November
NZ Herald – Samantha Heath: Aged care in critical need (paywall)
13 November
Sunday Star Times – ‘Exhausted and demoralised’: Healthcare workers plead for help amid burnout crisis
10 November
Newshub – Aged care organisation behind elderly Jacinda Ardern billboard pleads for urgent change
NZ Herald – Billboards show aged versions of Jacinda Ardern, Grant Robertson to highlight care sector crisis
BusinessDesk – Aged-care ginger group gets personal with politicians
NewstalkZB – Dr Chris Gallavin: The aged care sector is on the brink of collapsing
2 November
1News – Reporter Simon Mercep on the closure of Mercy Parklands | Watch here
22 October
Newshub – Age Care Association chief executive Simon Wallace told Newshub he’d “rather close beds than compromise the quality of care” | Watch here
14 October
BayBuzz – NZACA Hawkes Bay representative Greg Pritchard talks to BayBuzz about the issues facing the aged residential sector in the region | Listen here
10 October
RNZ – Simon Wallace speaks with Finn Blackwell about the effects of the nationwide nursing shortages | Listen here
4 October
RNZ – Simon Wallace speaks with The Panel to discuss nursing shortage | Listen here
Newstalk ZB – Kerre Woodham: Where are we going to get these aged care workers we desperately need? | Listen here
Newsroom – In aged care crisis, the grass is always greener on the other side of The Ditch | View here
NZ Herald – Aged care crisis: Elderly languishing in hospitals as 1200 nurses sought, 940 beds closed | View here
Newstalk ZB – Aged care sector having to turn away new residents amid nursing shortage | Listen here
28 September
One News – Next Cenus date announced with new measures after poor 2018 turnout | View here
21 September
RNZ – Simon Wallace speaks with The Panel on whether or not the Return to Nursing Workforce Support Fund has been successful | View here
19 September
Newstalk ZB – NZ Aged Care Association chief executive on aged care labour shortage | View here
17 September
Stuff – Aged care sector desperate for nurses to fill shifts | View here
13 September
Newshub – Several Aucklanders say it’s ‘about time’ most COVID-19 rules scrapped | View here
RNZ – Covid-19 rules mostly scrapped – will masks be missed? | View here
8 September
Stuff – Upper Hutt rest home will stay open after deal with aged-care provider | View here
7 September
Voxy – Taranaki care home bed vacancy updates now available in Taranaki via Eldernet | View here
29 August
Newstalk ZB – Mike’s Minute: When will this Govt actually accept accountability | View here
Otago Daily Times – ‘Imminent system failure’: Aged-care system on verge of collapse | View here
25 August
Radio NZ – Migrant nurses discouraged by immigration settings – National Party | Listen here
Newshub – National accuses Government of ignoring bleak warning that aged care sector will fail if staff shortages aren’t addressed | Watch here
22 August
One News – Lower migrants pay ‘a positive policy’ – Immigration Minister | View here
Newshub – Nursing, aged-care sectors say Government’s temporary changes to relieve workforce shortages will have little impact | Watch here
Radio NZ – Simon Wallace discusses immigration changes with Susie Ferguson | Listen here
Newstalk ZB – Simon Wallace talks to Kate Hawkesby: Govt has missed an opportunity to address nurse shortage | Listen here
18 August
Stuff – Upper Hutt rest home closure ‘catastrophic for the community’ | View here
Newshub – One of New Zealand’s largest rest homes shuts due to nurse shortage, warnings more closures to come | Watch here
Newstalk ZB – CO-CEO Dr Chris Gallivan: St Joseph’s elder care facility closing due to staff shortages | Listen here
Stuff – Staff shortages force closure of Upper Hutt nursing home after almost 100 years in operation | View here
17 August
Stuff – Aged Care Commissioner calls for ‘urgent intervention’ on workforce issues | View here
15 August
Today FM – Lloyd Burr talks to the Aged Care Commissioner Carolyn Cooper | View here
11 August
NZ Herald – Far North aged care sector continues to struggle with demand | View here
4 August
Stuff – Half of Canterbury’s aged care homes reporting unsafe staffing levels | View here
Stuff – Rotary volunteers helping a Covid-hit retirement village raises alarm | View here
3 August
DHBs weren’t consulted about fast track residencies | Listen here
Otago Daily Times – Aged-care projections queried by provider | View here
2 August
Business Desk – Healthcare workforce boost welcomed but ‘show us the money!’ say employers | View here
1 August
NZACA media release – Aged care sector welcomes health recruitment service View here
Scoop press release – The Perfect Storm: Health And Housing Crisis Will See More New Zealanders Struggle To Access Aged Care Services | View here
Stuff – Report calls for review of ‘underfunded’ aged care sector | View here
Newshub – Aged care in crisis as sector loses 1000 beds in six months due to staffing issues | View here
28 July
The Detail – The rest home nursing crisis that will only get worse | View here
27 July
Stuff – Elderly left in their beds until after lunch as care shortage worsens | View here
22 July
Today FM – Lloyd Burr talks to Simon Wallace about the NZACA petition | View here
Radio NZ – ’24 hours shifts’ – Aged Care sector staff shortages at crisis point | View here
18 July
Business Desk – It’s time govt got out of the corner on migrant nurses | View here
14 July
Otago Daily Times – Covid impacting aged-care facilities | View here
13 July
Radio NZ – Warick Dunn on The Panel | Listen here (from 03:00)
12 July
Newshub – Andrew Little refuses to call buckling health system ‘crisis’ as figures reveal big jump in reports of understaffing causing safety risks | View here
8 July
Stuff – Long waits for frail Kiwis to access aged care will ‘collapse the health system’ | View here
6 July
Stuff – Opinion, Simon Wallace: After years of neglect, aged care sector is under threat | View here
Stuff – Covid-19: Almost 1000 rest home beds out of action, nurses working ’24 hours straight’ | View here
5 July
Newstalk ZB – New report shows lack of funding for aged care patients | Listen here
RNZ – People entering rest homes with hospital-level needs – report | Listen here
RNZ – Postcode lottery for aged care admittance – research | View here
29 June
RNZ – Nurses at Wellington Hospital ‘burnt out’ as patient numbers climb | View here
19 June
Q+A – NZ’s failure to attract migrants hurting Covid recovery – National | View here
12 June
Newshub – National accuses Kris Faafoi of misleading New Zealanders about evidence behind migrant nurses’ residency pathway | View here
10 June
NZ Doctor – Aged care rejects Health New Zealand’s funding increase | View here
8 June
Stuff – Rural specialist health services in crisis | View here
26 May
NZ Herald – Local aged care facilities speak up on lack of nurses | View here
24 May
RNZ – Family fears as aged care faces staffing struggle: ‘It’s heartbreaking’ | View here
21 May
Otago Daily Times – Overlooked aged care sector dismayed | View here
20 May
NZ Doctor – Budget ignores collapsing aged residential care sector | View here
18 May
RNZ – Hutt Hospital patients, nurses say local health service vital | View here
17 May
Newshub – Nationwide shortage leads to rest home offering $500 to families who find them nurses | View here
16 May
NZ Herald – Budget 2022: Funding hopes for Northland aged care already at ‘breaking point’ | View here
13 May
RNZ – Doctors, unions join call for nurses on immigration green list | Listen here
Stuff – Southern aged care providers write to MPs, DHB for support | View here
Otago Daily Times – Nurses backpay parity call | View here
The Raglan Chronicle – Nursing crisis hits Raglan Rest Home and Hospital | View here
12 May
Otago Daily Times – Squeezed to ‘absolute desperation’ | View here
11 May
RNZ – Aged care sector desperate for funding | View here
Newsroom – Historic pay equity deal down the drain now | View here
Stuff – Crisis looming as lack of nurses sees Taranaki rest home provider leave beds empty | View here
7 May
Stuff – Aged care system ‘broken’, as Southland runs out of beds for elderly people | View here
6 May
Newsroom – Taskforce needed to fix nursing woes | View here
Wairarapa Times – Elder care crisis | View here
5 May
Otago Daily Times – No quick fix for aged care staffing | View here
Stuff – Nursing shortage keeps West Coast rest home shut | View here
4 May
Stuff – Aged care on life support ahead of Budget Day (Opinion editorial – Simon Wallace) | View here
3 May
Waatea News – Loss of aged care beds as nurses leave | View here
Stuff – Aged care sector ‘in crisis’ with more than 1000 registered nurses needed across the country | View here
2 May
Newstalk ZB – The reality is older people are being displaced and uprooted | View here
RNZ – Staffing crisis causing aged care sector to collapse, provider says | View here
29 April
Newsroom – Retirement villages to close doors in ‘perfect storm’ of nursing shortages | View here
26 April
Voxy.co.nz – Covid-hit care and support providers reach out to Kiwis | View here
24 April
Stuff – Retirement villages are booming, while aged care homes face a staffing crisis over nurses’ pay, forcing the closure of more than 400 beds | View here
12 April
Today FM – Interview with Lloyd Burr on the RN workforce crisis | Listen here
11 April
Stuff – Rest home staff working 16-hour shifts, caring for up to 15 residents at a time | View here
10 April
NZ Herald – Omicron outbreak: Surge in aged care deaths; 164 facilities battling cases | View here
8 April
RNZ – Other measures being used to protect vulnerable elderly in resthomes | View here
7 April
RNZ Checkpoint – Concerns some rest homes no longer checking vaccine passes | Listen here
5 April
Newshub – Concern over businesses dropping vaccine pass requirements | View here
Today FM – Interview with Tova O’Brien on the nursing shortage | Listen here
3 April
Sunday – Fed-up nurses say they are understaffed and overworked | Watch here
20 March
NZ Herald – Omicron outbreak: More than 110 rest homes hit by Covid-19; experts warn death toll will grow | View here
16 March
Newsroom – Elderly ‘snatch and grab’ in Reefton | View here
10 March
Stuff – Nursing shortages threaten arts programmes in care homes | View here
8 March
Stuff – Staff shortages close 400 aged care beds across New Zealand | View here
3 March
NZ Herald – Omicron in dozens of rest homes, sector coalition warns staff shortages ‘potentially catastrophic’ | View here
1 March
Waatea News – Covid restrictions hitting rest home workforce | View here
26 February
NZ Herald – Rest homes ‘on verge of collapse’ | Print/Premium only
18 February
Stuff – Covid-19: Aged care homes trying to avoid an Omicron-fuelled staffing crisis | View here
Stuff – Covid-19: Aged care calling for PPE to protect residents | View here
11 February
The Spinoff – NZ aged care confident in the face of omicron, but sees ‘enormous pressure’ on staffing | View here
Otago Daily Times – Shortage of nurses is nationwide | View here
1 February
RNZ – Covid-19: Families prepare for aged care closures | View here
RNZ – Omicron spread a ‘huge worry’ for Grey Power members | View here
Stuff – Covid-19: Blenheim businesses braced for Omicron onslaught | View here
29 January
Stuff – Covid-19 boosters mandatory for essential workers but not for vaccine pass | View here
25 January
Stuff – Covid-19: To ‘hunker down’ or keep active? The question Omicron poses for elderly Kiwis | View here
24 January
RNZ – Kitchen worker at Auckland rest home believed to have Omicron | View here
2021
16 December
Stuff – Covid-19: Rest home charging $10 for visitor vaccine pass criticised | View here
13 December
Stuff – Covid-19: ‘Aged care is going to be different’ association says | View here
9 December
Stuff/The Southland Times – DHBs snapping up aged care staff, health bosses say | View here
6 December
Health Ministry ‘traffic light’ advice for aged care inconsistent – Aged Care Association | View here
3 December
RNZ – Covid-19: Nerves about rest home visits over summer | View here
26 November
Newsroom – No answers for isolated care home residents | View here
15 November
Stuff – The LGBTQ retirees who don’t want to become invisible, again | View here
14 November
Stuff – Job or jab? Vaccine-hesitant workers face agonising choice as mandate deadline looms | View here
9 November
RNZ – Plea for more dementia support and resources to meet growing demand | View here
22 October
Newstalk ZB – Aged care homes opening to visitors despite rules | View here
21 October
RNZ – Covid-19: Aged Care thrilled by MIQ spots for health workers | View here
RNZ – Health worker MIQ spots a start, but more needs to be done – expert | View here
Newstalk ZB – Radius Care: Retirement village chain to allow visitors for residents’ mental health | View here
20 October
Newshub – COVID-19: Vaccine boosters on way by end of year for high-risk people | View here (NZACA Board member, Gordon MacLeod)
14 October
RNZ – Auckland aged-care residents struggling with isolation in lockdown (NLG members Dr Frances Hughes and Cheyne Chalmers) | View here
9 October
Newshub – Coronavirus: Aged care sector begs Govt for vaccine mandate, else ‘residents will die’ | View here
6 October
Stuff – Covid-19: ‘No jab, no visit’ policy for visitors to Ryman Healthcare rest homes | View here
5 October
Otago Daily Times: Aged care losing nurses to DHB roles | View here
30 September
Radio NZ – Covid-19: Healthcare leaders on new one-off visa | View here
Stuff – Nearly 165,000 migrants eligible for fast-tracked residency | View here
28 September
Stuff- Aged residential care reaching ‘tipping point’, DHB boss says | View here
17 September
TVNZ – Elderly patients turned away from rest homes due to lack of nurses | View here
13 September
RNZ – New Zealand losing migrant rest home staff to Canada, UK due to MIQ unavailability | View here
3 September
Stuff – Vaccine puts a security blanket around aged care centres (Anna Blackwell, NLG) | View here
2 September
The News – Aged care under extra stress | View here
26 August
Radio NZ – Call for government to consider cheaper, quicker testing for Covid-19 (NLG Chair Dr Frances Hughes) | View here
25 August
Radio NZ – Aged Care Association supports mandatory vaccination | View here
22 August
Newshub – COVID-19: Aged care facilities feeling pressure of staff shortages | View here
21 August
Newsroom – Health Ministry reassures on PPE stocks | View here
19 August
Radio NZ – Covid-19: Anxious wait for older Coromandel residents | View here
13 August
Radio NZ – Expats ‘dismayed’ by lack of action on MIQ availability | View here
4 August
Stuff – Simon Wallace spoke with Stuff reporters about the appointment of an Aged care Commissioner | View here
24 July
Stuff – NZ’s aged-care sector faces an ‘impending crisis’ | View here
16 July
Stuff – Speedier Covid-19 vaccination roll-out urged for retirement village residents | View here
5 July
RNZ – Covid-19 vaccine rollout ‘a DHB postcode lottery’ | View here
17 June
The Guardian – ‘Locals don’t like this job’: New Zealand’s aged care sector fears immigration reform | View here
15 June
NZ Herald – Covid 19 coronavirus: Rest home vaccination disparity revealed | View here
12 June
Stuff – Aged care nursing shortage in Southland ‘a serious situation’ | View here
18 May
RNZ – ‘Scene setting’ immigration speech labelled confusing by critics | View here
RNZ – Rest home industry worried immigration reset will make staffing trouble worse | Listen here
27 April
ABC News (Australia) – New Zealand’s vaccination program is built on Pfizer and a plan to take it slow | View here
22 April
Stuff – Resident, who is 101, gets Covid-19 vaccine as rollout occurs at aged care facilities in Wellington region | View here
RNZ – Healthcare professionals react to sector overhaul | Listen here
21 April
Newshub – Health Sector Reforms: Experts and providers react to the biggest shake-up in 20 years | View here
19 April
Newshub – Palmerston North rest home residents still six weeks from being vaccinated as trans-Tasman bubble opens | View here
14 April
Stuff – Top of the south ‘setting benchmark’ for Covid vaccinations in rest homes | View here
8 April
RNZ Checkpoint – Rest homes still waiting for Covid-19 vaccination start date | View here
23 March
Gisborne Herald – Ongoing fight to close nursing pay gap | View here
4 March
NZ Herald – Ministry of Health considers starting vaccinations in South Auckland as priority | View here
3 March
RNZ – Elderly should be next in line for Covid-19 vaccine – advocate | View here
2 March
NZ Herald – Health expert wants travellers prioritised for vaccine | View here
26 February
RNZ – Aged Care industry concerned by plans to slow immigration | View here
RNZ – Lack of migrant workers a concern for aged care sector | View here
15 February
Stuff – Rest homes and retirement villages halt visits to vulnerable elderly in short, sharp lockdown | View here
3 February
Newstalk ZB – Retirement village operator adopts strict new Covid jab hiring policy | Listen here
Otago Daily Times – No jab, no job: Retirement villages’ new staff will need to be vaccinated | View here
1 February
RNZ – Covid-19: Strong argument for mandatory vaccination for some workers – law expert | View here
2020
3 December
Newshub – Vulnerable elderly clamouring to be first in line for COVID-19 vaccine in New Zealand | View here
26 November
Stuff – After 20 unsuccessful job applications Covid returnee wonders if she belongs in NZ | View here
23 October
NZ Herald – Serious health workforce burden looms: Experts say more migrant workers needed | View here
14 September
RNZ – Covid-19: Aged care restrictions will remain despite possible Alert Level changes | Listen here
4 September
Newsroom – In-house testing at rest homes mulled | View here
2 September
The Spinoff – Confusion over what ‘alert level 2.5’ means for Auckland rest homes | View here
NZ Herald – The ‘new normal’ of visiting New Zealand aged care facilities | View here
31 August
RNZ – Only some Auckland aged care facilities moving to level 2.5 | View here
20 August
RNZ – New Zealand’s aged care association members take no chances | View here
18 August
Newshub – COVID-19: Anger as Auckland rest home keeps elderly in rooms for five days as precaution | View here
17 August
Stuff – Coronavirus: Aged care homes to stay in level 4 lockdown until | View here
16 August
RNZ – Push for aged care staff to be tested on site | View here
Newshub – COVID-19: Rest homes say they’re still not getting enough PPE | View here
14 August
Stuff – Aged care better prepared for Covid resurgence but gaps remain | View here
Stuff – Coronavirus: Elderly community ready for Covid-19 lockdown | View here
13 August
Otago Daily Times – Rest-homes snap back into lockdown | View here
NZ Herald – Covid 19 coronavirus: Alert level 2 quashes events around Northland | View here
RNZ -Covid-19: Rest homes in lockdown | Listen here
12 August
Newstalk ZB – All NZ rest homes move to alert level 4, ‘full lockdown, no family visits’ | View here
RNZ – All rest homes going into level 4 lockdown for three days | View here
NZ Herald – Covid 19 coronavirus: All NZ rest homes move to alert level 4, ‘full lockdown, no family visits’ | View here
NZ Herald – Covid 19 coronavirus: Whanganui reacts to move back to level 2 | View here
Stuff – Coronavirus: All rest homes locked down as ‘extra precautions’ taken to protect aged-care sector | View here
Stuff – Taranaki District Health Board meeting to plan services for level 2 | View here
Stuff – Business as usual at Taranaki hospitals during alert level 2 | View here
Newshub – Coronavirus live updates: COVID-19 in community, Auckland going to level 3 | View here
Otago Daily Times – Southern rest-homes ‘fully prepared’ for lockdown | View here
17 June
Newsroom – Health board’s PPE squeeze revealed | View here
12 June
NZ Herald – Covid 19 coronavirus: Aged care/rest home review finds delays meant outbreaks ‘accelerated’ | View here
RNZ – Aged care staff unfamiliar with Covid-19 epidemiological terminology – report | View here
Otago Daily Times – Infections worsened by delay | View here
NZ Doctor – Aged care sector welcomes Covid-19 cluster review report | View here
11 June
Newshub – Coronavirus: Ministry of Health report reveals aged care staff were ‘highly stressed’ by lack of communication over COVID-19 clusters | View here
RNZ – Aged care clusters introduced by staff or visitors – review | View here
RNZ Checkpoint – ‘We play a huge role’ in NZ health – Aged Care Association boss | Listen here
RNZ – Review shows rest home workers ill prepared for Covid-19 | View here
Stuff – Report on aged-care clusters reveals how virus got in to facilities | View here
NZ Herald – Covid 19: Rest home review finds confusion and lack of PPE as virus struck | View here
1 News – All rest home Covid-19 clusters were started by staff or visitors, review finds | View here
RNZ Checkpoint – Aged care faces crisis as nurses paid less than DHB peers | Listen here
5 June
Stuff – Aged-care nurses fed up with wage disparity launch campaign for fair pay | View here
28 May
NZ Herald – Coronavirus: Dangerous testing gaps not rest home’s fault, says Aged Care Association | View here
22 May
Stuff – Coronavirus: Low staff levels must be part of any reviews into rest home outbreaks | View here
19 May
NZ Herald – Covid-19 Budget fails aged care workers | View here
16 May
NZ Herald – Covid 19 coronavirus: Inside the deadly St Margaret’s rest home cluster | View here
13 May
Stuff – Time to ‘loosen the rope’ in rest homes: Visiting rules in Covid-19 Alert Level 2 explained | View here
12 May
RNZ – Today is international nurses day, aged care nurses underpaid | Listen here
Newstalk ZB – How rest homes will operate under alert level 2 | Listen here
Newshub – How frontline medical staff celebrated International Nurses Day amid the coronavirus pandemic | View here
Seven Sharp – Seven Sharp celebrates nurses on International Nurses Day | View here
Stuff – Move to Alert Level 2 receives mixed reactions from experts | View here
Newshub – Whanganui grandmother counting down days to alert level 2 to be reunited with grandchild | View here
11 May
Stuff – Move to Alert Level 2 receives mixed reactions from experts | View here
8 May
NZ Herald Premium – Covid-19: 37 staff down, 3 residents positive; Inside the Atawhai Assisi Rest Home cluster | View here (Premium subscription required)
Stuff – Visitors welcome back to rest homes in Covid-19 alert level 2 | View here
RNZ – New screening criteria for aged care facilities | Listen here
7 May
RNZ – Covid-19 screening expanded for rest home residents | View here
2 May
NZ Herald – A toll of 11: Inside the deadly Rosewood rest home cluster | View here
Stuff – Inside Rosewood: The rest home with over half of NZ’s Covid-19 deaths | View here
30 April
Stuff – Aged-care sector doing its utmost to protect the vulnerable | View here
Stuff – NZ Aged Care Association gets audience with Ministry over rest home testing | View here
28 April
Newsroom – Slow movers on PPE called out | View here
24 April
Newshub – Rest home residents call on Ministry of Health for increased coronavirus testing | View here
23 April
Stuff – Ministry’s refusal to allow testing of asymptomatic aged care residents criticised | View here
Newsroom – Will pharmacies, GPs and dentists survive Covid-19? | View here
Stuff – Coronavirus: Christchurch woman stuck in hospital unable to get Covid-19 test | View here
Newshub – Ministry of Health continuing rest home audits during COVID-19 lockdown prompting ‘huge concern’ | View here
Stuff – Coronavirus: $26m aged care top-up doesn’t go far enough, industry leader says | View here
Stuff – Christchurch woman stuck in heartbreaking ‘predicament’ given Covid-19 test to allow her to leave hospital | View here
Stuff – Ministry’s refusal to allow testing of asymptomatic aged care residents criticised | View here
22 April
New Zealand Parliament – Epidemic Response Committee Meeting Recording: Wednesday 22 April | View here
Hansard Transcript Epidemic Response Committee 22 April 2020 | View here
Radio NZ – Epidemic Response Committee challenges government’s health response | View here
Newshub – Coronavirus: Health workers threatened with disciplinary action for speaking out over PPE issues | View here
One News at Six – Clashes over rest home testing, flu vaccinations at Epidemic Response hearing | View here
NZ Herald – ‘Decades of neglect’ of the health system have caused Covid-19 breakdown issues | View here
Otago Daily Times – Health sector critical of Govt’s Covid response | View here
Star News – Govt criticised over flu vaccine ‘debacle’, Covid funding | View here
Newshub Wednesday 22 April | View here
21 April
Stuff – Hutt Valley DHB backs down, allowing 93yo to have Covid-19 test against government advice | View here
18 April
Stuff – Government funds $276m for PPE, Pharmac and residential aged care | View here
17 April
Newsroom – Why rest homes will get millions from taxpayers | View here
15 April
ODT – Aged-care facilities in focus as deaths rise | View here
NZ Herald – Targeted inspections of aged-care facilities after rest-home outbreaks | View here
Stuff – Aged care facility at centre of sixth significant cluster in Auckland | View here
NZ National Party – Rest homes should have testing kits | View here
14 April
RNZ Conan Young – ‘Requests fallen on deaf ears’: Rest homes consider buying Covid-19 tests | View here
RNZ Morning Report – Coronavirus: Aged Care Association CEO on plan to buy test kits | Listen here
Newsroom – Rosewood residents relocated, isolated | View here
Newstalk ZB – Aged care review announced as death toll grows | Listen here
RNZ Checkpoint – Some exceptions for visiting dying relatives at rest homes | Listen here
One News at Six 14 April | Watch here
NZ Herald – Aged care review announced as Christchurch’s Rosewood Resthome death toll reaches 6 | View here
13 April
NZ Herald – Covid 19 coronavirus: New Zealanders should ‘take heart’ in declining case numbers but grave fears remain for a group of dementia patients | View here
Newstalk ZB – Calls for mandatory testing of people moving into rest homes after deaths | Listen here
12 April
Newshub – Rest home bosses perplexed at lack of COVID-19 testing for new residents | View here
Newshub – Coronavirus: Ministry of Health stands by not testing all new rest home residents | View here
Stuff – Another lonely death from Covid-19, as the virus spreads into another aged care home | View here
Stuff – Coronavirus: Deficiencies found at rest homes with Covid-19 cases | View here
Stuff – Coronavirus: A warning of more Covid-19 deaths as New Zealand marks a three-week low in new cases | View here
11 April
Stuff – Scores of cases at rest homes, deaths a ‘tragedy waiting to happen’ | View here
Stuff – Coronavirus: Man in 70s becomes second Rosewood Rest Home death, fourth nationwide | View here
Stuff – Coronavirus: George Manning rest home in Christchurch reports 14 cases of Covid-19| View here
6 April
RNZ – Health staff working to deal with Dementia care facility COVID-19 cluster | View here
5 April
Newshub – New rest home residents now need negative COVID-19 test first | View here
4 April
NZ Herald – Rest homes get tough on new residents – no admittance without virus test | View here
RNZ – Rest homes will not admit residents without a negative Covid-19 test | View here
1 April
RNZ Nine to Noon – Minister Iain Lees-Galloway and CE Simon Wallace speak to Kathryn Ryan on immigration changes | Listen here
27 March
RNZ Nine to Noon – CE Simon Wallace speaks to Kathryn Ryan on ARC staffing issues | Listen here (from 12’17”)
23 March
RNZ Checkpoint – Covid-19: Concerns for elderly under NZ lockdown | Listen here
18 March
Newsroom – COVID-19 Elderly people’s double pandemic risk | View here
8 March
Newstalk ZB – Simon Wallace and Dr Ayesha Verrall with the latest on COVID-19 | Listen here
4 March
TVNZ – ‘NZ rest homes ‘not geared up’ for coronavirus outbreak, calls for national action plan’ | View here
3 March
NZ Herald – ‘Coronavirus: Rest homes, retirement villages plead for national aged care response plan’ | View here
RNZ Checkpoint – ‘Rest home worries over Coronavirus: They are ignoring us’ | View here
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