NEWS
What does the NSW budget mean for Health?
Our health system is in crisis. Health workers with essential professional skills like paramedics, nurses, and midwives are leaving NSW or leaving the profession entirely due to poor pay, dangerous working conditions and burnout. People across the state and particularly in rural and regional areas are waiting too long for...
Mudgee Guardian: Mudgee to host hearing
A LOCAL action group opposed to the Lue Silver mine have welcomed a first of its kind Upper House enquiry into the potential Impacts of Gold, Silver, Lead and Zinc Mining on human health, land, air and water quality established this week.
The Daily Advertiser: Wagga mum Linda Burge the first of many to speak on NSW mental health needs as inquiry begins
Wagga mum Linda Burge is hoping a government inquiry into the equity, accessibility and delivery of outpatient mental health care across NSW will shine a light on the gaps plaguing the state that are in need of attention.
Medical Republic: Locum agencies put the squeeze on small towns
Practice manager Carmen Edmondson and registered nurse Julie McKay have been trying quite literally to give away their GP clinic for the better part of a year.
Media Release: New inquiry into the equity, accessibility and appropriate delivery of outpatient and community mental health care in NSW
An Upper House inquiry has been established to inquire into the equity, accessibility and appropriate delivery of outpatient and community mental health care in New South Wales. Dr Amanda Cohn MLC, Chair of Portfolio Committee No. 2 – said: "We have established this inquiry because of the critical importance of outpatient...
7News: TGA makes changes to increase access to medical abortion
Restrictions on dispensing abortion medication at GPs and pharmacies have been lifted. Dr Amanda Cohn, Greens MP, says these changes by the TGA are really important for access to abortion, but more is needed to ensure both medical and surgical abortions are available, accessible and affordable for all people.
Health Services Daily: Solution to costly locum doctors ignored for 15 years
Fifteen years after the Garling report and NSW Health still has casual doctor supply problems.
Media Release: NSW needs 2 Step up as medical abortion pill access expanded
Dr Amanda Cohn, NSW Greens MP and a former medical abortion prescriber, has responded to newly announced federal reforms to improve access to medical abortion.
Sydney Morning Herald: NSW government promises crackdown on ‘unsustainable’ cost of temporary doctors
NSW Health Minister Ryan Park has vowed to crack down on the use of private recruitment firms to plug holes in the state’s creaking hospital system, saying the government’s over-reliance on costly third-party companies is unsustainable.
Sydney Morning Herald: Independent funding probe risks becoming an attack on councils: Greens
Sydney’s councils hope an independent review of the funding model for local governments will come up with a simpler scheme that ensures they are more financially sustainable in the long term. However, the NSW Greens warn the probe risks becoming the latest in a “series of attacks” they say Labor...