1,112 nursing positions across NSW, have been left unfunded beyond the 2024-25 Financial Year by the former Liberal National Government.
The former government funded 1,112 nurses as temporary positions, despite including them in a major announcement to recruit an extra 10,000 healthcare workers in June 2022.
The NSW Health Minister Ryan Park today revealed the full impact of these temporary nursing positions in parliament.
“It is one of many fiscal abominations committed by the former government,” Mr Park said.
“Over the past couple of months we have uncovered all sorts of fiscal timebombs planted by the previous government.”
Of the 1,112 unfunded nurses:
- 138 are in the Hunter New England LHD
- 109 are in the Western Sydney LHD
- 99 are in the Sydney LHD
- 82 are in the Northern Sydney LHD
- 61 are in the Illawarra Shoalhaven LHD
- 56 are in Western NSW LHD
- 51 are in the Northern NSW LHD
- 50 are in the Nepean Blue Mountains LHD
Quotes attributable to The Hon. Chris Minns MP, Premier of New South Wales and Member for Kogarah
“The Minns Labor Government has set out a comprehensive suite of measures to rebuild our health system and it will begin by placing our health workers at the centre of that effort.”
“We are investing in our health workers, rolling out safe staffing levels in our hospitals – starting in our emergency departments.”
“We are boosting the number of regional paramedics, scrapping the public sector wages cap and we are focussed on recruiting and retaining more skilled health workers.”
“We are embracing new and innovative solutions to reduce wait times, relieve pressure on our emergency departments and free up hospital beds.
“It won’t be easy to undo 12 years of neglect, but the Minns Labor Government is determined to get on with the job for fixing the mess left behind by the Liberal Nationals.”
