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“People are very angry about the whole treatment of n...
February 10, 2025
Kathy Triggell, RN, Wyong Hospital We’ve met with our local member David Harris, the member for Wyong. We put forward how awful the nursing hours per patient day (NHPPD) are and informed him that in a three-week period in August our local health district was 5,000 hours short: that is 625 shifts not provided in…
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“People are very angry about the whole treatment of n...
February 10, 2025
Kathy Triggell, RN, Wyong Hospital We’ve met with our local member David Harris, the member…
Aged Care
More money in the pockets of aged care workers from Jan...
February 10, 2025
Aged care workers should have received their latest wage increase in their first full pay…
Aged Care
Estia members overturn aged care language ban
February 10, 2025
Speaking a language other than English in the tearoom is no longer a punishable offence…
Aged Care
Policy killed chat in tearoom
February 10, 2025
Sydney AiN Fane Poitaha was an Estia employee and NSWNMA member leader at the time.…
Aged Care
The power of collective action
February 10, 2025
In an email to members, NSWNMA General Secretary Shaye Candish said the union wrote to…
Midwifery
NMBA report delivers a bleak outlook for midwifery
February 7, 2025
A major new report on Australia’s midwifery profession has found that more than a third…
Midwifery
Scale-up midwifery models of care
February 7, 2025
Most midwives want to work in continuity of care models, but inflexible work practices and…
Midwifery
Grow the midwifery workforce
February 7, 2025
Universities, health services and government need to increase midwifery student numbers by two per cent,…
Branch Beat
Strike boosts confidence at Prince of Wales Private
February 7, 2025
Nurses and midwives at Healthscope’s Prince of Wales Private Hospital (POWP) are forming a NSWNMA…