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To outline the way the culture of austerity arising from the Global Financial Crisis has been used by Australian and New Zealand governments to maintain and extend healthcare budget cuts, through new public management strategies leading to missed nursing care.

Ten years on the cost of the Global Financial Crisis continues to be borne by tax payers and those employed by the welfare state, yet analysis shows clearly that it was caused by a failure to adequately regulate markets, particularly the banks and multinational corporations. In health care, one of the impacts is increased workload for nurses leading to missed care.

Registered Nurses and midwives (n = 7,302) completed the MISSCARE surveys between 2012 ‐ 2015, in four Australian states and New Zealand providing quantitative and qualitative responses. The qualitative comments were analysed using a template …