Members of the NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association (NSWNMA) have reiterated their vehement opposition to the Abbott Government’s proposed introduction of co-payments for GP visits and out of hospital pathology or diagnostic tests. During the 69th annual conference* of the NSWNMA last week a large number of notices of motion were debated by delegates, including […]
NSWNMA General Secretary Brett Holmes will speak at a forum this evening on the proposed changes to Medicare and the threat to our public health system. The forum is at 6.30pm in the Trades Hall Auditorium, Goulburn Street, Sydney.
Australia’s largest health union, the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF), says nurses and midwives won’t agree to any co-payments for GP visits or other services – our healthcare system is for everyone. ANMF Federal Secretary, Lee Thomas, said the Abbott Government has our nation poised on the edge of change to our health system […]
Kerry Rodgers RN speaks about Medicare at the Bust the Budget rally, Sydney Town Hall, 6 July 2014.
Members of the NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association (NSWNMA) are taking their campaign for improved nurse-to-patient ratios and the need to save Medicare to the local community for support. The members, from Liverpool Hospital Branch of the NSWNMA, have called on the NSW government to extend nurse-to-patient ratios into more public health facilities and specialty […]
Members of the NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association (NSWNMA) are speaking with their local community about their campaign for improved nurse-to-patient ratios and the need to save Medicare. The members, from NSWNMA Bankstown Hospital Branch, have been calling on the NSW government to extend nurse-to-patient ratios into more public health facilities and specialty units, particularly […]
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 […]
Nurses, midwives, doctors, healthcare workers, industry experts, university students and concerned citizens will gather in Sydney this evening over the proposed changes to Australia’s universal health care system. Mobilised by their opposition towards any dismantling of Medicare, the group will discuss impacts of the Abbott Government’s $7 co-payment for GP visits, diagnostic and pathology services. […]
The NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association (NSWNMA) has condemned the Abbott Government’s first Budget as an attack on the state’s health system with long-lasting side effects, ahead of the federal opposition’s Budget in Reply later today. General Secretary of the NSWNMA, Brett Holmes, said Tony Abbott’s decision to introduce a $7 mandatory co-payment for GP […]
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