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 […]
The NSW Government has presented an unacceptable offer on the NSWNMA ratios and pay claim, at a meeting held today. Two months after presenting the claim to put patient safety first, the Government has delivered a categorical ‘no’ to improving and extending the successful Award nursing hours/ratios system that nurses and midwives won through tough […]
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 […]
The New South Wales Government announced on 3 May that it will use part of the annual pay increases offered to public sector workers to meet its own superannuation obligations. From 1 July, compulsory employer superannuation contributions will rise from 9 per cent to 9.25 per cent and will rise incrementally each year until they […]
Government announces change to public sector pay cap. PHS Campaign Bulletin 13 May 2013
After three meetings, NSWNMA negotiators are still waiting for a response to your claim to put patient safety first by improving and extending the ratios/nursing hours system. The Government has not authorised NSW Health to make any response to your claim. This means they have failed to apply their own policy that negotiations should start […]
NSWNMA members at two of western Sydney’s biggest hospitals – Liverpool and Bankstown – and their nearby community health services today officially launched their local campaigns for a new Public Health System Nurses & Midwives (State) Award. The claim challenges the O’Farrell Government to build on the safer hospital staffing levels introduced in 2011 under […]
NSWNMA members at Bega and Pambula hospitals and nearby community health services will today officially launch their local campaign for a new Public Health System Nurses & Midwives (State) Award. Ratios put patient safety first Bega-Pambula campaign launch details Date: Monday, 29 April 2013 Time: 10.00am – 11.00am Venue: Littleton Park, Bega Speakers NSWNMA Bega […]
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