The NSWNMA Council has endorsed your delegates’ call for a strike of public health system nurses and midwives next Wednesday – to attend a Special General Meeting of members at 18 web-linked locations around NSW. There is now no choice but to escalate our action because the Government has refused to extend the successful nurse […]
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 […]
A campaign brochure about ratios – download below. Ratios campaign brochure
This factsheet provides information about five surgical procedures commonly performed across NSW, where the amount of nursing care available is directly related to safe patient care and positive patient outcomes. Download the factsheet below. Surgery in NSW country hospitals factsheet
A campaign info sheet of testimonials from nurses and midwives on ratios can be downloaded below. PHS campaign 2013 – testimonials on ratios
What the Government is saying about our ratios campaign and what the facts are. Download the document below. What the Government says, what the facts are
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 […]
See Red day plus change to super loophole. PHS Bulletin June 28 2013
The Government continues to refuse our claim for improved and extended ratios, so nurses and midwives across NSW will be seeing red this Monday July 1 to spread the message that the Government refuses to improve patient safety by guaranteeing minimum nursing care levels. Facebook has ‘See red’ ideas Here are some Branch plans for […]
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 […]
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