NSW health care workers took to the streets on Thursday to increase pressure on the state government over pay rises and staffing levels. The Health Services Union (HSU) has made repeated attempts to begin negotiations over a productivity-based pay rise, ...

Nurses and public health officials have been locked in a "state of non-negotiations" following last week's historic industrial action, according to the peak nursing union. Nearly ten thousand nurses and midwives took to the streets in NSW last Tuesday to ...

Nurses across NSW are preparing to walk off the job for the first time in almost a decade after two years of sacrifices throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. Thousands of nurses and midwives from more than 150 public hospitals voted in favour of a ...

Some NSW nurses on the coronavirus frontline are forced to wear incontinence underwear at work because they don’t have time to go to the bathroom, an inquiry has been told. NSW politicians probing the state’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic have been ...

While COVID-19 hospitalisations begin to slowly plateau across NSW, the state's intensive care nurses remain under intense pressure. “People are tired, people are angry, and helplessness and hopelessness are creeping in,” said ICU nurse and NSW Nurses and Midwives' Association ...

Fatigued nurses in NSW are continuing to push for pay increases for their work during COVID-19, Nursing Review has heard, amid radio silence from state officials and local MPs. A motion calling for hazard pay, which started from an online ...

Nurses in regional NSW fear that ongoing staff shortages and daily changes in exposure sites will leave them overwhelmed in the coming weeks, advocates have told Nursing Review. Health authorities have flagged the Central Coast as a growing area of ...

NSW treasurer Dominic Perrottet has announced that the Berejiklian Government will cap annual public sector wages growth at 1.5 per cent in the upcoming NSW Budget, to reportedly save an extra $1.8 billion over three years. The union representing nurses ...

A peak NSW nursing body has thrown its support behind a campaign to decriminalise abortion in the state. NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association (NSWNMA) is one of 70 signatories of the NSW Pro-Choice Alliance, a campaign launched by the Women’s ...

Nurses and midwives at Blacktown Hospital are wearing grey armbands to highlight the need for improved safety after a patient attacked their colleague with a knife. NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association (NSWNMA) members hope the move sparks changes to hospital ...