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Painfully slow recruitment processes within public hospitals are masking the true scale of the dire workforce shortages in the health system, frontline workers warn.
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Health NZ data, obtained by the PSA under the Official Information Act, showed it was taking up to 30 weeks for Health NZ to even approve recruitment to begin for frontline vacancies at hospitals in the Wellington region, including for doctors, nurses, technicians and support staff.
PSA national secretary Fleur Fitzsimons said this meant that staffing levels were unsafe for patients.
"These figures show there is a recruitmen
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