Nursing staff take action over cuts in Western NSW

The NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association (NSWNMA) fears patient safety will be compromised across several hospitals in the state’s West, following widespread cuts to nursing staff shifts. Over the past week, Western NSW Local Health District (WNSWLHD) has introduced new rosters for nursing staff based at Canowindra, Condobolin, Coonamble and Nyngan hospitals, citing the introduction […]

Nursing dispute at John Hunter Hospital

A dispute over nurse staffing levels in John Hunter Hospital operating theatres is set to escalate despite a commitment in the Industrial Relations Commission on Friday that five more specialist nurses would be employed, reports the Newcastle Herald. The NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association believes another 25 nurses are needed to meet accredited rostering standards – […]

Coffs Harbour mental health nurses action on workloads

Nursing staff at Coffs Harbour Community Mental Health have had a less than enjoyable Easter this year thanks to longstanding workload issues at the site. The affected nurses are set to implement a range of measures to manage their own workloads, after failed attempts to seek adequate resources from Mid North Coast Local Health District […]

Nurses’ overwhelming support for safe nurse/patient ratios

General Secretary of the NSW Nurses’ and Midwives’ Association (NSWNMA), Brett Holmes today said he is not surprised by the overwhelming support shown by nurses and midwives for the Association’s campaign to extend and improve safe nurse to patient ratios. “NSWNMA branches all over the state have voted this week on whether to endorse our […]

PHS 2014 – a claim to put patient safety first

Every patient, in every community, deserves the right to safe care. This is the 2014 Public Health System claim, Overwhlemingly voted for by NSWNMA branches and served on the NSW Ministry of Health in April 2014. Download the claim to put patient safety first 2014.  

PHS 2014 claim voting results

The claim in full is here. Watch Brett Holmes discuss the claim and upcoming campaign. Final branch voting results as at 11am Friday 11 April 2014. Branch Name Vote Albury Base Hospital Y Albury Mental Health Community   Nurses Y Albury Mental Health Nurses –   Nolan House Y Armidale Community Health   & Hospital […]

John Hunter operating theatres at breaking point

The NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association (NSWNMA) today accused the Hunter New England Local Health District (LHD) of running surgical theatres at John Hunter Hospital (JHH) to the point of breakdown through fudging its staffing levels and driving nursing staff beyond the point of exhaustion. NSWNMA General Secretary, Brett Holmes, said an expert report commissioned […]

Bathurst nurses strike on Friday

In one of the most dramatic local confrontations between nurses and midwives and the State Government in decades, NSW Nurses & Midwives Association (NSWNMA) members at Bathurst Base Hospital will start a 24-hour strike at 7am Friday 29 November, to protest against the Western NSW Local Health District’s decision to close five beds in the […]

Albury work bans start

NSW Nurses and Midwives Association (NSWNMA) members at the Albury community mental health service have today started work bans on the following administrative work in an attempt to get the Murrumbidgee Local Health District to fully replace all nurses on annual leave: • attending non-clinical meetings such as staff meetings; • typing minutes for any […]

Dubbo nurses suspend bed closures for two weeks

NSW Nurses and Midwives Association (NSWNMA) members at Dubbo Hospital voted on Tuesday October 1 to suspend for two weeks the planned closure of the hospital’s Emergency Medical Unit’s (EMU) six beds after hospital management agreed to try and fill, as quickly as possible, the large number of nursing vacancies in the emergency department. Late last […]

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