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'Left no option': Labor faces first mass nurses' strike

Thousands of nurses and midwives will walk off the job in NSW for their first major strike since Labor won power.

AAP

Patient warning over plan to ease GP load with pharmacy

The peak body for GPs has hit out at a NSW government plan to let pharmacies treat more health conditions to take pressure off doctors.

AAP

NSW drug summit to be co-chaired by former state Liberal leader who denounced pill testing

Exclusive: Health minister says John Brogden and former deputy premier Carmel Tebbutt ‘respected across the aisle’

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'A lot of women suffer in silence': Menopause hub opens, as taboo breaks

Hub could be 'life-changing for many women', Sonia Hornery says.

Newcastle Herald

NSW health minister apologises to women failed by maternity care after birth trauma inquiry

Ryan Park pledges to fast-track a number of initiatives, including to improve access to continuity of care and ensure informed consent

The Guardian - AU

'Absolutely disgusting': Hunter nurses, midwives fight for better pay

'People are just fed up.'

Newcastle Herald

'What about us?': the Mater snubbed in NSW government safe staffing program

'We deserve the same as John Hunter and the Sydney hospitals.'

Newcastle Herald

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'Too busy to switch off': Paramedics don't have time for meal breaks

Expressions of interest called for Edgeworth ambulance station.

Newcastle Herald

The Way To A Circuit Court Nomination Is To Lose A Landmark Supreme Court Case

President Biden nominated the non-prevailing attorneys in Dobbs and SFFA to the First and Fourth Circuits, respectively.

Reason

Ten nurses and doctors assaulted every week in hospitals

Body-cams deployed in public hospitals to combat assaults.

Newcastle Herald

John Hunter Hospital security guards to get body-worn cameras

The 12-month trial will take place in nine hospitals.

Newcastle Herald

Long wait for aged-care bed, NDIS places clog hospitals

A chronic shortage in NDIS and aged-care placements is crippling the NSW hospital system, the state's health minister says.

AAP

Warehoused: why Lake Macquarie paramedics will be based at Sandgate

'The stations were supposed to be built two years ago.'

Newcastle Herald

GP tax deal has bulk winners but won't inoculate all

The NSW government is getting on the front foot before GPs increase prices to cover payroll tax obligations, but some patients should expect to see higher fees.

AAP

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Funding plea as health system faces 'national crisis'

Patients are copping the brunt of a deteriorating health system as state and territory health ministers call on the federal government to help fix the "crisis".

Newcastle Herald

$20m package set to tackle 'national crisis', but paediatric clinics left in lurch

Advocates say the package will not be 'transformational change'.

AAP

Back-to-basics budget for health, schools as costs soar

The NSW government will fund billions in upgrades and maintenance for schools and hospitals as the treasurer acknowledges cost pressures on construction.

AAP

Concerns over crowd control at Sydney's Vivid Festival

Additional police will be on duty after larger than expected crowds prompted security concerns around Sydney Harbour after a drone show at the Vivid festival.

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More telehealth, ED boost to ease hospital pressure

A $480 million boost to ease hospital pressure in NSW includes more free telehealth appointments and expanding emergency department short stay units.

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.'

The Guardian - AU

‘I felt guilty’: women reveal harrowing details to groundbreaking NSW birth trauma inquiry

Report calls for urgent efforts after receiving 4,000 submissions including from patients, doctors, midwives and experts around Australia

AAP

Hope in heartbreak as birth trauma report ushers change

Survivors who told intimate and harrowing stories of birth trauma hope sharing their ordeals will help prevent other mothers from experiencing the same pain.

Newcastle Herald

'Catastrophe waiting to happen': health data shows system getting sicker

Emergency departments 'pushed well beyond their limits'.

AAP

Lack of GPs driving record hospital pressure: minister

NSW emergency department attendances and ambulance responses are at a record high, while the state lost 500 general practitioners in one year.

The Guardian - AU

Afternoon Update: search for missing mother and newborn; more Australian woe at French Open; and winter’s warmest fashion trend

Divers and a blood detection dog are looking for a woman and her baby around the Cooks River in Sydney’s south-west

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