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Sydney nurses stood down after claiming they would kill Israeli patients in social media video

PM condemns footage as ‘sickening’ as police and the healthcare watchdog investigate

The Guardian - AU

'Frightening' wait times for psychiatric patients

Public-sector psychiatrists fear mental health patients are receiving inadequate care due to chronic staff shortages in the nation's largest health system.

AAP

NSW government in 11th-hour bid to postpone mass resignation of psychiatrists

State asks Industrial Relations Commission to urgently arbitrate on the matter before resignations take effect from Wednesday

The Guardian - AU

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Half of the psychiatrists in NSW’s public service are preparing to resign. Here’s why

Health minister Mark Butler warns of ‘devastating consequences’ for patients and their families if the strike goes ahead

The Guardian - AU

EDs face surge of patients with psychiatrist exodus

Emergency departments could bear the brunt of housing large numbers of mental health patients after 60 per cent of one state's psychiatrists threatened to quit.

AAP

Govt throwing mental health patients 'under the bus'

Mental health patients in Australia's most populous state are being neglected by their government which is failing to retain psychiatrists, a union says.

AAP

Paramedic helicopter promise struggles for lift-off

Building one new helicopter base a year for three years to improve regional health care is proving far more difficult than first thought.

AAP

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'Much-loved' doctor's colleagues 'feeling very raw' after bus crash death

Junior medical officer Rebecca Mullen was one of the 10 people who died in the accident at a roundabout on Wine Country Drive.

Newcastle Herald

Young mother suffers miscarriage waiting 11 hours to access emergency department

Ambulances stuck waiting to unload patients as region's EDs struggle to cope.

Newcastle Herald

John Hunter Hospital turmoil explored by independent policy compliance check

NSW Health secretary has "no reason" to believe Hunter New England Health chief executive is not executing role in any other way but to support his hospital.

Newcastle Herald

NSW records longest ambulance wait times since records were made publicly available

Health officials say high COVID-19 numbers and relaxed restrictions led to a "fluctuation" in performance in hospitals and ambulance response times in the first three months of the year.

ABC News

NSW hospitals struggled amid Omicron surge

Patients in NSW faced longer waits for ambulances and in emergency departments as the COVID-19 Omicron variant surged.

AAP

Average wait times for NSW ambulances the worst in 12 years of records

Health secretary says emergency departments remain under significant pressure due to high Covid-19 and flu cases

The Guardian - AU

Paramedics ramp up NSW industrial action

NSW paramedics plan to escalate industrial action in their battle for better pay and resources amid unprecedented demand for ambulance services.

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Paramedic left to run NSW town hospital

Leaving an emergency paramedic to run a hospital during a COVID-19 outbreak was not a "perfect" decision, the NSW Health Secretary has acknowledged.

AAP

NSW's $4 billion spend on pandemic health

The federal government has welcomed a move to scrap rules requiring close COVID-19 contacts to isolate, as NSW marks one year since its vaccine program began.

ABC News

NSW records 29 COVID deaths, push for booster uptake intensifies

The NSW Health Minister says the number of people getting a COVID-19 vaccine booster shot isn't good enough as hundreds of thousands of appointments go to waste.

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