The public will have an opportunity to explain how the privatisation of essential public assets and services has affected them, their families and local communities when hearings into the People’s Inquiry into Privatisation visit Sydney on Thursday. Community members are invited to present experiences of privatisation and offer advice on better ways to run our public […]
Nurses believe the level of patient care delivered at Kyogle Memorial Multi Purpose Service (MPS) will be under threat from next week, when the Local Health District (LHD) cuts four hours of nursing care per day. Instead of maintaining the Assistant in Nursing (AiN) hours, a Health & Security Assistant (HSA), whose current main duties […]
Nurses have resolved urgent understaffing issues with management at the eleventh hour of negotiations ahead of tomorrow’s opening of the new emergency department. The NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association (NSWNMA) Lismore Base Hospital branch raised the issue with the Northern NSW Local Health District (NNLHD) last week and have spent the last few days negotiating […]
Nurses have raised concerns about overnight staffing at the redeveloped Lismore Base Hospital Emergency Department after being advised of the staffing structure just days out from the official opening. The new unit is almost twice the size with an additional six beds in the acute section and four more beds in the short stay unit. […]
The New South Wales Nurses and Midwives’ Association (NSWNMA) acknowledges the release of the final report into the medical gases incident that led to the tragic outcomes for two babies born at Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital in June and July this year. Nurses and Midwives at Bankstown and across our membership continue to offer our deepest […]
Almost three years after shutting five beds at Bathurst Hospital, Management at Western NSW Local Health District (WLHD) has announced it will reopen the beds, citing estimated population growth figures as the motive for the increase. The beds were closed on 9 December, 2013 in a cost-saving exercise by the State Government, despite ongoing attempts […]
Management at Murrumbidgee Local Health District (MLHD) has closed eight of the 16 surge beds at Wagga Wagga Rural Referral Hospital over the weekend as a result of ongoing concerns about unsafe staffing from excessive overtime. In an agreement between MLHD and members of the NSW Nurses and Midwives Association (NSWNMA) Wagga Wagga Rural Referral […]
Over 70 members from the NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association’s (NSWNMA) Wagga Wagga Rural Referral Hospital branch met last night and resolved to close surge beds from Friday in an attempt to reduce ongoing staffing issues at the new hospital. Inadequate staffing has resulted in nurses working up to 70 hours of overtime in a […]
The government is pushing ahead with its privatisation agenda in Albury, despite today’s comments from Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) chairman, Rod Sims that it is damaging our economy and leading to a lack of regulation. Ramsay Healthcare signed an agreement with Albury Wodonga Health to run the new publicly-funded Cancer Centre in Albury […]
NSW Minister for Health, Jillian Skinner, confirmed there would be more privatisations of hospitals, claimed there was no evidence nursing home residents were better off with a registered nurse and conceded more funding was needed for public services at today’s NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association’s (NSWNMA) 71st Annual Conference in Sydney. During question time, nurses […]
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