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Alice Neville: “After months of escalating concern over “significant overspending”, on Tuesday Te Whatu Ora released hundreds of pages of internal documents that shed further light on its financial state, specifically how hiring more nurses than it could afford was driving a substantial deficit. After years – and even decades – of nurses saying the health system was in crisis due to chronic understaffing and underfunding, how could there suddenly be ‘too many nurses’? And does ‘too many’ for what’s been budgeted just mean there simply hasn’t been enough funding? Figuring it all out is not a simple task, but we’ve done our best to bring you this timeline.”
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How did a chronic shortage of nurses become ‘too many’?
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