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The Latest Breaking News from John Hunter

Rail unions back fresh industrial action across Sydney train network in lead-up to New Year’s Eve – as it happened

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'Undervalued and lowest paid in country': Nurses rally for better pay

The state's largest female-dominated professions want respect.

Newcastle Herald

Ten nurses and doctors assaulted every week in hospitals

Body-cams deployed in public hospitals to combat assaults.

Newcastle Herald

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Answering urgent call to invest in GP Access pays off

Bulk-billed GP Access boost helps take pressure hospitals

Newcastle Herald

Hospital harm in the Hunter prompts concern over errors due to workload

'Staff need more proactive support before incidents occur.'

Newcastle Herald

Government announces bulk-billing clinic to take heat off John Hunter

The free walk-in clinic will be open every day.

Newcastle Herald

Nurses rally for 15 per cent pay rise, with John Hunter 'beyond full'

'If the younger ones don't do overtime, they can't survive.'

Newcastle Herald

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All hands on deck as John Hunter redevelopment gathers pace

About 450 workers are now employed on the John Hunter redevelopment.

Newcastle Herald

Emergency department pressure mounts, but ground gained on surgeries

John Hunter results prove the need for nurse-to-patient ratios.

Newcastle Herald

John Hunter staff parking highlights 'inconsistent' regional ruling

Labor councillors will raise the issue at a Newcastle council meeting.

Newcastle Herald

Nurses welcome safe staffing move at public hospitals as 'momentous'

Nurses have been "fatigued and frustrated" for a long time.

Newcastle Herald

'Parking nightmare': nurses rally against fees, gridlock at John Hunter

Nurses resort to sitting in their cars for an hour before work.

Newcastle Herald

'Not fair': nurses furious as paid parking reinstated amid COVID wave

Nurses say they must pay for parks that aren't there, while shift workers are being told to catch buses.

Newcastle Herald

'Unwell': Wait times in emergency grow, as health minister seeks answers

Sickest patients get treated first, but wait times are worsening.

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'Delays': Non-urgent elective surgeries fall at John Hunter Hospital

Difficulties in performing elective surgery at 'full internal capacity'.

Newcastle Herald

Free John Hunter Hospital shuttle bus could run into Newcastle CBD

Health Minister Ryan Park says Wollongong's shuttle takes in the hospital, uni and city centre.

Newcastle Herald

John Hunter park-and-ride bus to return, health minister confirms

He also unveiled a new ADHD clinic based in Wallsend.

Newcastle Herald

Health warning: rise in kids with 'life-threatening complications' from the flu

Sixteen children have been admitted to intensive care since May, including four at John Hunter Hospital.

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Kylee Enwright's long road ahead holds signs of hope

'We took that as a good sign, but I'm no doctor.'

Newcastle Herald

Time spent in John Hunter's emergency department breaks records, as urgent cases rise

John Hunter Hospital is 'working on maximising patient flow'.

Newcastle Herald

Doubled in a decade: what Hunter emergency department data tells us

'Emergency medical care had developed as a specialty over the last decade.'

Newcastle Herald

Little Wings opens Hunter base to fly sick kids and doctors

'We've been servicing Newcastle for six years, but never had our own base.'

Newcastle Herald

John Hunter Hospital staff call for 6 per cent wage rise

Labor has been in power for two months now and 'nothing's been done'.

Newcastle Herald

'More work needed' as hospitals lag on emergency care

Maitland and John Hunter hospitals were well below the NSW average for treating patients on time.

Newcastle Herald

Tensions grow at Hunter New England Health

Mediator brought in to address growing tensions within Hunter New England Health

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