More and more Australian nurses and midwives will be left without jobs if the Abbott Government loosens restrictions for overseas workers, the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) has warned. The Australian newspaper reported today that a range of foreign workers, including nurses, will be able to be employed on salaries of up to 10 […]
Australians pay too much for their medicines and, depending on the drug, up to an astonishing 40 times more than New Zealanders. And yet this week the Abbott Government will be asking the Senate to approve the Government’s plan to make Australians pay even more when the National Health Amendment (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Bill 2014 is […]
The Federal Council of Australia’s largest health union, the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) this afternoon expressed its “strong disappointment at the announcement by the Australian Medical Association (AMA) to support a GP co-payment”. Meeting in Hobart, Members of the Federal Council issued the following statement: “While the AMA proposal seeks to soften the […]
The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) today expressed its dismay and disappointment at the Australian Medical Association’s proposal for an alternate GP co-payment model and continues to oppose all proposals for GP and other co-payments. Under the AMA plan for an alternate model released today, people would still pay $6.15 to see a doctor […]
The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) is pleased to announce a new addition to its suite of online CPD education programs – Body Systems Training Room. Federal Education Officer Jodie Davis said the new training room, launched today, demonstrates the ANMF’s ongoing commitment to providing not only its members but all nurses and midwives […]
Australia’s nurses and midwives will be “the ones who have to cope with the increased load of patients who have delayed seeking care because they simply could not afford it”, as a result of the Abbott Government’s devastating Budget. That’s the message from Lee Thomas, the Federal Secretary of Australia’s largest health union, the Australian […]
Australia is facing a healthcare emergency. The Abbott Government’s cuts to health have begun. From today, the Government begins its systematic slashing of more than $50 billion of health funding to the States and Territories. The Government will then ask the Senate to demolish Medicare by introducing a range of new costs for basic health […]
Co-payments to visit bulk billing GPs and an increase in the price of prescription medicines will combine to have a devastating impact on Australia’s healthcare system now and into the future, the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) has warned. ANMF Acting Federal Secretary, Annie Butler, said the Prime Minister had broken his election promise […]
Nurses and midwives will be forced to work longer and harder in crowded public hospitals if the Abbott Government adopts the punishing recommendations contained in the Commission of Audit (CoA), the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) warned today. Thousands of low-paid aged care workers, already robbed of promised wage and work condition improvements, will […]
The country’s largest health union, the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF), says reports the Abbott Government is considering a new “hospital tax” will end universal healthcare for all Australians. ANMF Federal Secretary, Lee Thomas, said Medicare is a taxpayer funded universal healthcare system that must always be controlled by Australian taxpayers. “We are concerned […]
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