One hundred and seventy-three graduate nurses and midwives will start work across the Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District (ISLHD) this year, providing a significant boost to local health services.
Across the state, more than 3,400 graduate nurses and midwives will commence work in the NSW public health system.
The graduates will gain invaluable experience across a broad range of clinical settings, as well as in community healthcare.
The NSW Government is undertaking an ambitious plan to strengthen the state's health workforce, including through:
- Implementing safe staffing levels of nurses and midwives beginning in our emergency departments;
- making permanent 1,112 nursing roles temporarily funded by the former government;
- abolishing the wages cap and delivering record pay increases for nurses, paramedics and other health workers as well as salary packaging;
- beginning to roll out 500 additional paramedics in regional, rural and remote communities; and
- increasing the rural health workforce incentive scheme package from $10,000 to up to $20,000 for recruitment to our hardest to fill roles
- Introducing a total of 12,000 tertiary health study subsidies of $4,000 a year over three years for newly commencing students, or one off $8,000 for existing students paid upon commencement in a role in NSW Health, to assist with the cost of study and to attract health graduates to work with the NSW public health system.
Quotes attributable to Member for Heathcote Maryanne Stuart:
“I am so proud to be a member of the NSW Minns Government implementing safe staffing levels, abolishing the wages cap and recruiting new health workers to the NSW public health system.
“Congratulations to the new graduate Nurses and Midwives – welcome!”
