Public Health
154 million lives saved in 50 years: 5 charts on the gl...
May 14, 2024
We know vaccines have been a miracle for public health. Now, new research led by the World Health Organization has found vaccines have saved an estimated 154 million lives in the past 50 years from 14 different diseases. Most of these have been children under five, and around two-thirds children under one year old. In…
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Public Health
Byron hurting from refusal to adopt ratios
February 3, 2022
Byron Bay Hospital is another Northern NSW health facility losing experienced nurses due to unsustainable…
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Sleeping on floors while waiting for beds
February 3, 2022
ED clinicians at Western Sydney’s largest tertiary referral hospital say they will no longer accept…
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United stand ‘gets wheels in motion’
February 3, 2022
A NSWNMA representative in Westmead Hospital’s ED, RN Farah Ismail, said the hospital-level nursing working…
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Push for mandatory Intensive Care standards
February 3, 2022
Critical care nurses take staffing case to health minister. Nurses seeking solutions to the staffing…
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Pressure mounts on government over ICUs
February 3, 2022
NSWNMA survey shows ICU staffing levels fall way short of key ACCCN standards. Sixty per…
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Telehealth cuts cause ‘mayhem’
February 3, 2022
Federal government puts money before care. Again. At the moment when Omicron exploded in late…
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We need help, not platitudes
February 3, 2022
The NSWNMA’s Liverpool Hospital branch has called on the NSW government to take concrete steps…
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Tamworth nurses and midwives pleas for support go unans...
January 13, 2022
As the state’s health system is put under immense pressure from the growing Omicron outbreak,…
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Delta disruption hurts already strained health system
December 15, 2021
New data shows emergency department (ED) clinicians have continued to persevere through demanding circumstances inside…