New Zealand’s public health authority hopes to avert unprecedented strike action by senior doctors and dentists in hospitals across the country next month, saying negotiations over a pay dispute are ongoing.

“Myself and my colleagues are making sure that we do everything that we can to avoid this disruption to patients,” Andrew Slater, chief people officer at Te Whatu Ora Health New Zealand, said Tuesday in Wellington. “We think we’ve put a fair offer on the table” and look forward to “continuing negotiations,” he told Radio New Zealand.

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