Have a hole in your lung? Need your gall bladder removed when you’re 22 weeks’ pregnant? You might have to wait 21 hours for treatment.
Stroke patients in western Sydney wait three times longer for a life-saving treatment,with NSW Health refusing to roll out the service despite existing capabilities.
Former midwife Karen Buckley has nightmares about dead babies. She says it’s a result of trauma on the job and understaffing,and she wants urgent change.
Two-person ambulance crews are routinely stuck at emergency departments for hours before they are cleared to pick up a new patient.
Emergency department wait times have reached a record high while hospitals and paramedics in NSW are treating record numbers with life-threatening conditions.
Minister Ryan Park says a royal commission-style inquiry will examine the entire NSW health system,including a root-and-branch review of the state’s hospitals.
The union will only move forward if the bulk of its membership supports the idea,but this is likely – and nurses’ pay would be only one part of its platform.
The documents show SafeWork believed the local health district failed in its duty of care to the two women,who died while working at Cumberland Psychiatric Hospital.
Cumberland Hospital staff are pleading for Health Minister Ryan Park to intervene at the troubled facility,with morale “at an all time low”.
Vicki Rowe has revealed conversations with her niece,an enrolled nurse at Cumberland Hospital who took her own life just months after becoming engaged.
The deaths of two nurses at Cumberland Hospital followed warnings from staff about a “culture of bullying and intimidation”.