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 […]
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 […]
NSWNMA members at more than 180 NSW public hospitals and community health services will strike, or take other protest action, for various periods tomorrow, Wednesday 24 July, to protest against the O’Farrell Government’s failure to provide guaranteed, safe nurse staffing levels in all public hospitals, public hospital clinical units and community health services and equal […]
Strike to affect more than 180 public hospitals and community health services. Buses and trains bring nurses and midwives to Sydney mass meeting. Sydney mass meeting webcast to 17 regional centres NSW Nurses and Midwives Association (NSWNMA) members at more than 180 NSW public hospitals and community health services will strike, or take other protest […]
More than 160 NSWNMA workplace branches have now notified the NSWNMA office that they will join Wednesday’s (24 July) statewide strike of nurses and midwives, to protest against the O’Farrell Government’s failure to provide guaranteed, safe nurse staffing levels in all public hospitals, public hospital clinical units and community health services and equal ratios in […]
The strike and Special General Meeting of members at Sydney Olympic Park and 17 regional webcast venues will go ahead next Wednesday 24 July at 11.30 am. One hundred and sixty five NSWNMA branches have voted so far to endorse the NSWNMA Council’s recommendation to strike. When our hospitals are unsafe, it’s our responsibility as […]
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 […]
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 […]
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