The negotiations included the first NZ nurse strike action in nearly 30 years.

New scheme to oversee safe-staffing levels in public hospitals

Could a settlement finally be in the air for nurses pay?

New Zealand Nurses Organisation and District Health Boards head back to the table.

Health Minister says he was in touch with colleagues while on overseas holiday.

Hospitals reported more staff and volunteers than planned.

Everything you need to know if seeking care while nurses strike

"The information I got was if I didn't come in she would be left."

Hospitals are ramping up preparations for when up to 30,000 nurses strike on Thursday.

Healthcare company ordered to pay a nurse more than $10,000 for unjust dismissal.

Nurses at Middlemore are wearing emergency alarms as the number of violent assaults rises.

First of two nurses' strikes off after union says it has received an improved offer.

They will strike for 24 hours starting at 7am on July 5, and may do so again on July 12.

COMMENT: Industrial action doesn't work and threatens to drag NZ back to the 1970s.

COMMENT: This latest offer would only halve the pay gap between here and Australia.

More positive commentary surfacing on Government's third pay offer to nurses.

Nurses say they are "distressed" and "disappointed" with latest pay offer.

Patients in New Zealand deserve better care than this, nurse tells.

The petition has raised more than 30,000 signatures.

DHBs must develop a contingency plan to ensure life-preserving services continue.

Nurses say a "safe environment for both patients and nurses" at the top of their agenda.

The nurses were rallying outside the Wellington train station with placards and leaflets.

Comment: We don't value carers enough. They deserve so much better and so much more.

Comment: By the very nature of mass unionism you're destined for smallest of pay rises.

PM fronts the media for her weekly media conference.

DHBs and nursing union planning behind the scenes for industrial action.

An investigation into the alleged assault on staff at Hillmorton Hospital is now underway.

A nurse was beaten senseless, another's finger was bitten to the bone.

DHB executives are travelling all over the world on taxpayer money.

About 70 Massey University staff want to take voluntary redundancy, and more may go