Public Health
15% pay claim is “ambitious but reasonable”
April 11, 2024
Public sector branches are set to vote on a recommended log of claims containing a proposed pay rise that would make PHS pay comparable with Queensland. As branches are about to vote on a draft log of claims that is the culmination of months of consultation, more than 30 branch resolutions and intense discussion and…
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Community battles to restore public services
January 29, 2019
Residents angry about hospital privatisation are carrying on the fight to restore public health services…
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ANMF calls for implementation of pill-testing trials
January 25, 2019
ANMF Media Release. 25 January 2019 After a series of deaths and overdoses this summer, and…
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5 things we’ve learned from California’s nurse-to-p...
January 25, 2019
Nurses in California, one of the United States’ biggest states, won safe staffing nurse-to-patient ratios…
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“We are 153 shifts short in February” – Three mid...
January 21, 2019
NSW maternity units are in crisis, with many facing mass shortages of midwifery staff, which…
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Resistant infections could kill 2.4 million people by 2...
January 15, 2019
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) says antibiotic-resistant superbugs are “one of the…
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Resistant infections could kill 2.4 million people by 2...
December 3, 2018
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) says antibiotic-resistant superbugs are “one of the…
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World AIDS Day – test for a diverse range of pati...
December 1, 2018
NSW Health data shows a need to increase HIV testing among heterosexual men who have…
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WHO recognises Traditional Chinese Medicine for first t...
October 29, 2018
The World Health Organization will include information on Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) in its influential…
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Ratios debated in NSW parliament
October 3, 2018
The Berejiklian Liberal government and the NSW Labor opposition have drastically different positions on nurse-to-patient…