Media advisory: Health workers to protest at Waikato DHB for better mental health services
Waikato DHB mental health workers, members of the PSA, will protest on Friday April 17 for the inaugural Better, Safer,
Fairer day in support of their system for rostering that the DHB is currently proposing to scrap, to the detriment of
mental health staff and patients.
What: Protest for ‘Better, Safer, Fairer’ day
Who: Mental health workers and PSA members from Waikato DHB, supported by a bus-load of Auckland mental health workers
Where: Waikato Hospital Gate 7, Selwyn St, Hamilton West
When: 2.30pm, Friday April 17
The PSA has recently written an open letter to Waikato DHB chief executive Nigel Murray regarding a review into recent
incidents at the Henry Bennett Centre, calling on Murray to ensure a wide-ranging independent review is undertaken and
that potentially harmful changes to the rostering system are not carried out.
The 4x2 rostering system is widely used in mental health facilities nationwide and is proven to be safer for staff and
patients. In support of the 4x2, a bus load of PSA members from Auckland DHBs will travel to Hamilton to express their
outrage that their Waikato colleagues could lose this world-leading system.
ENDS