Queensland, New South Wales and international nurses, midwives and nursing union officials will take to the water to raise the importance of universal health care today. Queensland Nurses Union (QNU) Secretary Beth Mohle said the nursing contingent would fly banners highlighting the need for global health care from a boat inside the G20 exclusion zone. Ms Mohle […]
The NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association (NSWNMA) has stepped up its campaign for improved nurse-to-patient ratios, particularly in emergency departments. Members of the NSWNMA Blacktown Hospital Branch have called on the NSW Government to extend nurse-to-patient ratios of one nurse to three patients (1:3) into the local emergency department. Only selected wards in metropolitan public […]
Prominent health organisations from across Australia today condemned Australia’s reliance on coal citing a growing and significant body of research documenting severe health effects. “It is clear, in this day and age, that we should be phasing out coal. It is highly polluting and is causing disastrous health impacts in communities across Australia. As health […]
As the G20 prepares to meet in Brisbane this weekend, nurses and midwives from across New South Wales and Queensland have challenged world leaders to implement a Robin Hood tax (a financial transactions tax) to support universal health care systems in Australia and across the globe. The group, together with local and international affiliated union […]
The research Financing healthcare: False Profits and the Public Good by Jane Lethbridge of Public Services International Research Unit (PSIRU), University of Greenwich, was released on Thursday 13 November at the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) forum When profits come first – The true impacts of health privatisation. “After almost 30 years of privatisation in the healthcare sector the […]
Australian and international nurses, midwives and union officials today joined Ebola health workers on the frontline in Liberia. The Queensland Nurses’ Union (QNU) this morning hosted an International G20 Nursing Conference at their Brisbane headquarters and crossed live to health workers fighting Ebola in the Liberian capital of Monrovia. The event was one of many […]
The NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association (NSWNMA) is stepping up its campaign for improved nurse-to-patient ratios, particularly in emergency departments. Members of the NSWNMA Gosford Hospital Branch are calling on the NSW Government to extend nurse-to-patient ratios of one nurse to three patients (1:3) into the local emergency department. Only selected wards in metropolitan public […]
The country’s largest health union, the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF), has welcomed the Abbott Government decision to commit a further $20 million to staffing and supporting a new 100-bed Ebola treatment facility in Sierra Leone. ANMF Federal Secretary, Lee Thomas, described the decision, which followed two months of lobbying the Government by the […]
Local residents, community organisations and union groups gathered at Wollongong’s City Diggers this evening to discuss tax reforms that could be implemented by government to stop the privatisation of public health care services and the dismantling of Medicare. Part of a community awareness campaign run by the NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association (NSWNMA), in conjunction […]
More than 350 Australian nurses and midwives are willing to travel to West Africa to volunteer in the fight against the Ebola crisis, according to the results of a new national survey. The poll, conducted over five days by the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF), asked nurses and midwives for their views on the […]
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