Given that there is no funding set aside to cover their contracts through mid-2025, more than 1,100 NSW nurses hired during the epidemic risk losing their employment.
NSW Health Minister Ryan Park brought up the deficiencies, blaming the coalition government for only filling the roles temporarily but refusing to commit to increasing money or creating permanent positions.
It is incomprehensible, according to Mr. Park, that after a COVID period, 1,100 of these people would have been left with merely temporary employment.
According to a Mr. Park representative, the government was “scrambling” to find money for the September budget.
Matt Kean, a shadow minister for health, said it was up to the new administration to either increase spending or accept responsibility for reducing the program.
According to Mr. Kean, the nurses were employed by the previous administration to help the overburdened NSW hospitals deal with the pandemic.
There is a nursing shortage in Australia.
More than 2.5 years into the pandemic, there is a greater demand for nurses than ever, yet many are exhausted and burned out, and some are even abandoning the field.
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“We also provided a healthy budget with surpluses that would have allowed the capacity to be increased, as well as a triple-A credit rating.”
The loss of 1,100 nurses would be catastrophic for the state’s hospital system, according to Michael Whaites, assistant general secretary of the NSW Nurses and Midwives Association.
He claimed that persistent staffing shortages already existed in NSW hospitals.
It’s unacceptable that these nurses would be fired from their jobs. Simply put, the government needs to find the money, according to Mr. Whaites.
We must urgently increase staffing levels so that they can deliver the level of care that the public expects.
The Hunter New England Local Health District will be the hardest hit, according to the government’s recently disclosed statistics, with 138 full-time equivalent nurses potentially facing job loss.
There are 109 impacted nurses in Western Sydney and 119.5 in South Western Sydney LHD.
There are 1,112 full-time equivalent nurses on the impacted contracts in NSW.
