Nurse surplus ‘norisense’
PA Auckland A prediction by the Minister of Health (Mr Gair) that New Zealand would face a surplus of nurses is nonsense, says the Nurses’ Society. . The society’s national director,. Mr David Wills, said yesterday New Zealand would need a -minimum of 33,247 nurses by the time all hospital-based . nursing schools closed.
.-'“That is a gain of 103 percent on the present, number of about 29,000,” he'said.
: Mr Gair said last :week that' hospital-based nurse training course intakes would be cut because of the prediction that more than 200 nurses might be out of work when they graduated.
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Press, 26 May 1981, Page 3
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