More paramedics, more nurses and more doctors will be joining the NSW health system including 9 paramedic interns and 1 paramedic inductee across the South Easter Sydney and Illawarra Shoalhaven Zones.
It comes as 24 NSW public hospitals have either achieved or are in the process of implementing safe staffing ratios in their emergency departments, including Sutherland Hospital which services the South Eastern Sydney Local Health District and Wollongong Hospital which services the Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District.
Paramedics
NSW Ambulance will today welcome 68 new paramedic interns and 6 new paramedic inductees following an official ceremony at the State Operations Centre, Sydney Olympic Park.
They join almost 600 new paramedics who have entered the service since the beginning of the year.
Seven paramedic interns and 1 paramedic inductee will join the South Eastern Sydney Zone and two paramedic interns will join the Illawarra Shoalhaven Zone.
The paramedic interns will be posted across NSW to complete the on-road portion of their 12-month internships, before taking permanent positions in metropolitan and regional areas.
Safe staffing in emergency departments
10 NSW public hospitals have completed the rollout of safe staffing ratios. 14 NSW public hospitals are in the process of implementing safe staffing ratios, including Sutherland Hospital and Wollongong Hospital.
Junior doctors
Junior doctors from Australia and abroad are being encouraged to become part of the country’s leading public health system, with the 2025 NSW Health Junior Medical Officer (JMO) recruitment campaign opening next Tuesday, 15 July 2025.
NSW Health is inviting junior doctors who have completed their first two postgraduate years of medical practice to apply to develop their skills in the country’s largest and most advanced public health system.
Junior doctors are encouraged to consider roles in rural and regional areas, with incentive packages available for those looking to support these communities and gain experience in a different setting.
Junior Medical Officers provide essential frontline medical care to the millions of people who use health services across the state.
Those recruited will start in their new roles at the beginning of the 2026 clinical year and will be offered positions in a range of specialties including general medicine, intensive and emergency care, pain management, psychiatry, pathology and more.
Rebuilding the health workforce
The Minns Labor Government is rebuilding an engaged, capable and supported workforce, by:
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Saving 1,112 nurses which the Liberal Government planned to sack;
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Abolishing the wages cap and delivering the largest wage increase to healthcare workers in a decade;
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Supporting our future health workforce through providing them with study subsidies;
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Investing $274 million to deliver an additional 250 healthcare workers at upgraded hospitals left with inadequate staff by the previous government;
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Deploying 500 regional paramedics to the bush; and
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Bringing more health workers to country NSW through the Rural Health Worker Incentive Scheme.
Quotes attributable to Maryanne Stuart
“From day one, we said that our top priority was to rebuild an effective and supported health workforce.
“We abolished the wages cap, undoing a decade of wage suppression; rolled out safe staffing ratios; recruited more paramedics; and brought more health workers out to the bush.
“Under the Minns Labor Government, the NSW health workforce is experiencing the most significant structural reform in its history.”
