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THE HEALTH Select Committee's call last month for a review of funding for the aged-care sector has been welcomed by NZNO, other unions and aged-care providers. NZNO, with the Service and Food Workers' Union, has been running a campaign for increased funding over the last 18 months. Campaign co-ordinator, Auckland based organiser Lesley Harry, said the committee's report vindicated the concerns NZNO had raised with the Ministry of Health over the last seven years. "Funding shortages over an extended time have negatively effected staffing levels and the quality of care provided. Nurses and health workers in the aged-care sector are paid significantly less and have poorer working …