Health Minister Andrew Little is being urged to wake up and smell the coffee over the state of our health workforce. 

A recruitment campaign to bring in intensive care nurses from overseas begins this week - two years after the start of the pandemic. 

In a radio interview speaking to Newstalk ZB's Heather Du Plessis-Allan yesterday, Little refused to admit there's an urgent need for doctors and nurses. 

Medrecruit owner Sam Hazledine says told Kate Hawkesby there's no doubt we're in a crisis, and the Government's been too slow. 

“At this point in time, we need to stop congratulating ourselves and giving ourselve high fives and actually looking at the reality.” 

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