NSW nurses and midwives are to strike next Wednesday (24 July) over the O’Farrell Government’s failure to act on patient safety. A special conference of NSW Nurses and Midwives Association (NSWNMA) workplace delegates, held in Sydney tonight (16 July), has unanimously voted to hold a statewide public hospital and community health service nurses and midwives […]
What is the Government saying about our ratios campaign and what are the facts? What the Government is saying about our ratios campaign: ‘Ratios’ do not apply in the NSW Health system. Instead there is an agreed formula based on ‘nursing-hours-per-patient day’. What are the facts? This is untrue. We have never disputed […]
Many nurses and midwives at NSW public hospitals and community health services will wear something red to work today 1 July to protest against the state Government’s failure to improve and extend safer nurse-to-patient ratios and the disreputable actions of the Premier, who has sent a misleading letter on the issue to some NSWNMA branches […]
There is growing discontent amongst nurses and midwives at NSW’s largest private hospital, the Sydney Adventist Hospital (The San), over the latest wage and conditions package offered by hospital management and industrial action is now being considered at the major facility if a more acceptable offer is not made within the next two weeks, the […]
The O’Farrell Government is using its dictatorial industrial relations laws to try and sideline the debate about improved nurse staffing and safer patient care in NSW public hospitals and community health services, the NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association (NSWNMA) said today. At the NSWNMA’s bimonthly Committee of Delegates meeting on 21 May workplace delegates from […]
The NSW Government is refusing to provide guaranteed, safer nursing and midwifery levels for seriously ill children, emergency departments, high dependency units and rural hospitals and multipurpose services, and safer nursing and midwifery staffing arrangements in community health services, the NSWNMA said today. The O’Farrell Government is also seeking to discount its legislated 2.5 percent […]
NSWNMA members at Gunnedah Hospital and community health services will rally today, 17 May, in support of guaranteed minimum staffing ratios, which provide better and safer patient care, and equal treatment for rural and regional patients. At the lunchtime rally they will call for the same guaranteed minimum nursing hours, in general wards, as the […]
Rural and regional patients deserve equal treatment: NSWNMA members at Inverell Hospital and community health services will rally today, 15 May, in support of guaranteed minimum staffing ratios, which provide better and safer patient care. At the lunchtime rally they will call for the same guaranteed minimum nursing hours, in general wards, as the big […]
NSWNMA members at Armidale Hospital and nearby community health services will rally today, 14 May, in support of guaranteed minimum staffing ratios, which provide better and safer patient care. At the lunchtime rally they will call for the same guaranteed minimum nursing hours, in general wards, as the big Sydney hospitals such as Liverpool and […]
Tonight’s Federal Budget must put protecting jobs and investing in Australia at the heart of the Government’s economic strategy, ACTU President Ged Kearney said today. Ms Kearney said meeting these priorities was more important than a quick return to a surplus. “The union movement has consistently argued that we should not pursue a surplus at […]
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