Ryan Bridge: Here we go again with the nurses strikes

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Jul 28, 2025 · 1m · transcript

If you've got an appointment at the hospital this week, you might want to check it's still going ahead.

Nurses are going on strike tomorrow from 9am for 24 hours. 4,300 surgeries and specialist appointments will be affected.

It's a complete withdrawal of labour. It's 36,000 nurses.

It'll affect every place where Health NZ provides health or hospital care, and it's the middle of winter.

The nurses union's been bargaining. It's the usual stuff - pay and staffing levels.

Also as usual, they say if it's life or death, you will be seen to.

They had a bargaining meeting yesterday with Health NZ…