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Western Australian nurses and midwives strike after rejecting pay and conditions offer

Nurses and midwives have walked off the job, after their union rejected the government's latest pay and conditions offer.

ABC News · Nov 25, 2022

WA nurses ordered to call off strike after fresh Industrial Relations Commission hearing

Western Australia's Industrial Relations Commission orders the state's nurses to call off planned industrial action – an instruction that will almost certainly be ignored.

ABC News · Nov 23, 2022

WA's nurses union and a Labor government are at loggerheads. How did it come to this?

The Australian Nursing Federation's WA branch and a Labor state government are at loggerheads, and not for the first time. How did it come to this?

ABC News · Nov 21, 2022

Nurses union rejects latest pay offer from WA government including staff-to-patient ratios

The Australian Nursing Federation knocks back a WA government offer on pay and conditions, including a proposal for nurse-to-patient ratios, as it weighs up whether to press on with industrial action.

ABC News · Oct 17, 2022

Cancer patient's treatment a week overdue as pressure continues on WA health system

In yet another sign of a struggling WA health system, Perth cancer patient Julia Osborne has been knocked back from receiving her life-saving chemotherapy for more than a week.

ABC News · Oct 14, 2022

West Australian government shuts down pay rise demands from Australian Nursing Federation

Western Australia's premier, Mark McGowan, insists the government won't budge from a public sector wages policy it announced last month but says it will work with the union in relation to nurse-to-patient ratios.

ABC News · Oct 13, 2022

Review of West Australian hospital staffing levels presents scathing findings of 'cumbersome' nurse rostering system

An independent review of the number of nurses in West Australian hospitals finds the present system of rostering does not provide staffing levels to enable safe and quality patient care.

ABC News · Oct 6, 2022

WA nurses warn public to avoid hospitals during industrial action slated for next week

WA nurses will walk off the job next week, angered by the state government's refusal to implement nurse-to-patient ratios, while the Health Minister has not ruled out going to the Industrial Relations Commission to halt the action.

ABC News · Oct 5, 2022

COVID-19 cases in WA hospitals surpass previous peak amid calls for new mask mandate

WA hits an unwanted pandemic record, with the number of people in hospital with COVID-19 in the state reaching a new peak of 329.

ABC News · Jul 14, 2022

Premier Mark McGowan labels WA's rising number of COVID-19 cases in hospital 'concerning'

The WA Premier says the increasing number of people with COVID-19 who are being admitted to hospital is putting pressure on the health system, as the tally trends towards a record high.

ABC News · Jul 13, 2022