The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) is disappointed that the Carnell Report acknowledges that inadequate staffing levels are compromising the care being provided to elderly nursing home residents, yet fails to deliver any real workforce solutions to fix the crisis in aged care. ANMF Assistant Federal Secretary Annie Butler said although the Report includes some useful recommendations […]
A new report launched today, Taking Back Control: A Community Response to Privatisation, has found the widespread practice of privatising public hospitals and health services across Australia is putting nurses’ professional obligations at risk, has had a detrimental impact on the quality of our healthcare system and has blown out taxpayer-related costs This report was put together by […]
The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) has expressed concerns that the Turnbull Government’s scrapping of the Clean Energy Target (CET) will lead to an increase in carbon emissions and risk the health and well-being of the Australian population. At last week’s Biennial National Conference in Hobart, ANMF members passed the following Resolution: “That the […]
At the 72nd Annual Conference of the NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association (NSWNMA) hundreds of nurses and midwives endorsed an updated position on assisted dying, which expressed the need for legislative change to occur in New South Wales. You can read the NSWNMA position statement on assisted dying here. This week, a private members bill that would […]
For the sake of older Australians and their families, Senators must vote for mandated levels of highly-trained nurses and appropriately-skilled carers to care for vulnerable nursing home residents, the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) said today. Today in Federal Parliament, Senator Derryn Hinch introduced the Aged Care Amendment (Ratio of Skilled Staff to Care Recipients […]
More than 92% of nurses and aged workers responding to the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation’s (ANMF) national workforce survey say they are being asked to care for the same number of nursing home residents with less staff or less rostered care hours. The online survey was launched in order for the ANMF to determine […]
Applications are now open for the Your Health Link National Photographic Competition and Exhibition with $45,000 in prizes up for grabs. The Competition’s focus is to increase health literacy through the exciting medium of photography, where community members are given a topic Healthy Life | Healthy You to actively participate in creating visual images that represent the subject matter. There are four categories – Primary and High […]
The country’s largest union, the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF), welcomes Opposition Leader Bill Shorten’s public acknowledgement of the urgent need for improved levels of nursing staff in the under-resourced aged care sector. Interviewed on the ABC’s 7.30 last night, which followed two previous reports highlighting the “shocking” mistreatment of vulnerable residents at a […]
Read or download the NSWNMA Submission to the Inquiry into the effectiveness of the Aged Care Quality Assessment and Accreditation framework.
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