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'Warm welcome': New nurses arrive in the Hunter from the UK and Ireland

'Health worker shortages in our regions are a big challenge.'

Newcastle Herald

Taxpayers are topping up health fund profits: analysis

Major health insurers have been accused of expecting NSW hospitals to subsidise their record profits amid a stand-off over who foots hospital bills.

AAP

'Great strides': Government touts boost to Maitland Hospital ED

Additional staffing and extended days 'making a difference'.

Newcastle Herald

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Insurers accused of robbing public on hospital costs

Heath insurers cost NSW taxpayers $140 million annually in hospital costs, the government says, but the sector has accused the state of a tax by stealth.

AAP

‘It’s a deadly gamble’: NSW urged to act on ‘growing threat’ of nitazenes amid push for drug-checking services

Exclusive: Legalise Cannabis party MP calls on government to recognise that powerful synthetic opioids ‘aren’t just another drug’

The Guardian - AU

Strike: 'Value us ... or else' say nurses in bid for 15 per cent pay rise

NSW Nurses and Midwives Association on 24-hour statewide strike

Newcastle Herald

Nurses force premier to reckon with 'hollow promises'

Thousands of nurses and midwives are striking as part of an ongoing stoush with the state government over a pay rise the premier says NSW can't afford.

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Cancelled surgeries, long wait times expected as nurses, midwives strike

Workers are asking for a one-year 15 per cent pay rise.

Newcastle Herald

'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’

The Guardian - AU

'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

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'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

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

Expressions of interest called for Edgeworth ambulance station.

Reason

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.

Newcastle Herald

Ten nurses and doctors assaulted every week in hospitals

Body-cams deployed in public hospitals to combat assaults.

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John Hunter Hospital security guards to get body-worn cameras

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

AAP

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.

Newcastle Herald

Warehoused: why Lake Macquarie paramedics will be based at Sandgate

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

AAP

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

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.

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