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Tuesday 1 April 2025 Media Summary
This week we began hearing in the media about the NSW doctors' planned 3-day strike to begin 8 April 2025. The psychiatrists' resignations and IRC proceedings are a separate but crucially related matter. We have always been the canaries in the coalmine speaking out about poor working conditions and the impacts on patient safety and the quality of care- issues which are relevant to all of NSW Health.
‘Scene out of Utopia’: NSW government paying consultants $176k for report on cutting consultants
It is dated 31/03, so sadly, it is not an April Fool's gag.
Doctors ordered to call off three-day strike in latest pay dispute
RPA hospital closes HIV psychiatry clinic with 200 patients after staff resignations
NSW Health Doctors to Strike over Working Conditions
‘Unprecedented’: NSW doctors to defy court order and strike for three days
NSW Health doctors announce industrial action from Tuesday for three days
'No choice': Doctors to strike for three days in NSW amid pay dispute
Last-Minute Court Ruling Orders Doctors to Call Off Strike
'We are at breaking point': NSW doctors to strike for three days over pay rise demands as surgeries, hospitals come to a standstill
Hospital care up in air as doctors defy strike ban
Hospitals to come to a standstill, as Wollongong doctors vote to join three-day strike
Doctors to stage three-day walkout over 'dangerously long' hours and staff shortages
Doctors plan first strike in 25 years, defying ban
NSW Health doctors announce industrial action from Tuesday for three days
ABC News: Delays expected as NSW doctors announce three-day strike
ASMOF NSW press conference
Seven News: Doctors strike threat
Nine News: Thousands of public hospital doctors to strike over pay demands
10 News First: NSW Doctors Plan Strike Amid Pay Dispute With State Government
Weekend 05-06/04 Media Summary
‘You can’t have both’: Judge blasts doctors for defying strike orders
Note that there are some factual inaccuracies in this article that have been discussed over in the NSW Psychiatry forum, and refer to my post yesterday for our interpretation of proceedings.
The Guardian Live 4 April: Psychiatrists’ arbitration delayed until next Friday
Health department tells doctors it could report them to AHPRA if three-day strike goes ahead
NBN News: A 13 and a half million dollar eating disorder treatment centre has opened in Charlestown
(but who will staff it?)
Senior Lismore psychiatrist speaks out against understaffing and worsening workloads
Union adamant doctors’ strike will go ahead despite threats, bullying
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