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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...
Sydney Morning Herald: ‘Incentivised price gouging’: The private companies making millions off doctor shortages
Private recruitment companies responsible for finding temporary doctors and nurses to plug gaps in critically understaffed NSW hospitals have been accused of deliberately driving up staff costs while also discouraging medical workers from taking full-time jobs in the public health system.
Why is it still so hard to have an abortion in the Riverina?
Four years after abortion was decriminalised in NSW, women across the Riverina are still struggling to access to pregnancy termination services.