Jacinda Ardern hopes the latest offer from the District Health Boards in the nurses pay dispute will be enough to avoid strike action next month.

The Prime Minister says it is certainly a step up from what was being offered.

"It is a doubling of what the DHB last offered - it addresses some of the concerns that nurses raised around staffing issues with a pledge to bring on an additional 500 nurses on into our nursing workforce."

She hopes will be enough to avoid next month's strike action.

It also includes two new pay bands to address the fact there are currently only six for the nursing workforce.