The Latest Breaking News from The Health Services Union

Are your patient records going digital? New system is causing 'huge stress'

'Significant concerns around patient safety and readiness.'

Newcastle Herald · May 27

Health giant under microscope for charity tax status

A health union wants the government to investigate embattled private hospitals operator Healthscope over a problem with its salary packaging scheme

AAP · Oct 24, 2025

Twelve days' reproductive health leave could save $26b

A new report reveals the staggering impact of reproductive health problems on productivity, feeding calls for extra leave entitlements.

AAP · Jan 12, 2025

NSW government offers 8.5% pay rise to lowest-paid health workers to head off industrial action

Offer comes after the Health Services Union gave the government until Friday to propose a new pay deal

The Guardian - AU · Jul 7, 2023

NSW government freezes pay of MPs, senior public servants

New South Wales politicians and senior bureaucrats will not be getting a pay rise for at least two years, as legislation to freeze their pay is introduced to parliament.

ABC News · May 30, 2023

Hospital industrial action set for Wednesday

'There is still a lot of talk and not a lot of action.'

Newcastle Herald · May 29, 2023

NSW health workers take action over stalled pay rises

Paramedics and heath workers at some NSW hospitals will walk off the job this week as the Health Services Union ramps up pressure for pay rises.

The New Daily · May 29, 2023

Paramedics 'at their wits' end': vow to leave non-urgent patients at hospital

The Health Services Union says the decision is being taken to address ramping, when paramedics are stuck in hospitals supervising patients with minor ailments while needed urgently elsewhere.

Newcastle Herald · Mar 19, 2023