The recommendations of the ‘Unleashing the Potential of our Health Workforce’ Scope of Practice Review’ Final Report (‘Report’), allowing highly-trained nurses, midwives and allied health professionals to best utilise their skills, education and extensive experience, provides an important new framework for the delivery of integrated, quality healthcare services across the community, according to the Australian […]
Nurses and midwives have kicked off a campaign against foreign-owned Healthscope, launching historic protected industrial action against the country’s second largest private hospital operator. Hundreds of NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association (NSWNMA) members will participate in two and three-hour work stoppages this week, as they fight for an improved pay and conditions offer. NSWNMA members […]
The country’s largest union, the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF), has welcomed the Albanese Government’s commitment to expanding fee-free TAFE courses. ANMF Federal Secretary Annie Butler said enduring funding for free TAFE study would help address skills shortages in the nursing and aged care workforces and save students thousands of dollars a year in […]
From this Friday, November 1, landmark laws come into effect across Australia, removing barriers, which for too long, prevented nurse practitioners (NPs) and endorsed midwives from prescribing medicines under the PBS and providing services under Medicare because of the outdated requirement for a ‘collaborative arrangement’ with a medical practitioner. The Federal Secretary of the Australian […]
Australia’s midwifery crisis has been laid bare in a national workforce report, prompting the NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association (NSWNMA) to reiterate calls on state and federal governments, and private employers, to urgently invest and prioritise the profession. The Midwifery Futures Report highlights the current state of midwifery in Australia, with more than a third […]
The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF), its Executive, State and Territory Branches and members all across the country will today celebrate a remarkable milestone – a century of serving and advocating for the rights and well-being of nurses, midwives, and the communities they serve. From just 700 members in 1924, the ANMF has steadily […]
More than ten thousand of NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association (NSWNMA) members across the state have walked off the job for 24 hours from morning shift on Tuesday 24 September over the NSW government’s decision to turn its back on public sector nurses and midwives. Major public rallies were held in Sydney, Tweed and Albury […]
NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association (NSWNMA) members will hold a 24-hour strike next week over the NSW government’s refusal to properly value the dedicated patient care that public sector nurses and midwives provide in increasingly challenging conditions. Thousands of nurses and midwives will strike for 24 hours from the start of morning shift on Tuesday […]
Public sector nurses and midwives from across New South Wales have held a strike for more than 12 hours (Tuesday 10 September), in a bid to send the NSW government a loud message. Fed up with being ignored by the government, thousands of NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association (NSWNMA) members walked off the job from […]
The NSW Government has failed to recognise the urgency of the midwifery workforce crisis, after releasing its response to the recommendations of the state’s first Birth Trauma Inquiry. The NSW Nurses and Midwives Association (NSWNMA) welcomed the state government’s support of 42 of the 43 recommendations but was disappointed by the lack of immediate and […]
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