Deborah Powell: NZ Resident Doctors Association National Secretary on the junior doctors strike

Published: May 15, 2024, 11:43 p.m.

Half the country\u2019s junior doctors are walking off the job again today as they continue to fight pay and work conditions.\xa0

More than two thousand junior doctors with the Resident Doctors' Association are striking for 49 hours from today.\xa0

They haven't reached an agreement with Health New Zealand on pay and working conditions.\xa0

Dr Deborah Powell, National Secretary for the NZ Resident Doctors Association, told Andrew Dickens that the good news is that they\u2019re still talking and working on it.\xa0

However they still haven\u2019t received a solution to the problems she said.\xa0

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