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Gillard Government delivers for aged care workers

ANF congratulates the Gillard Government on its commitment to tackling workforce issues in aged care.

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Election 2013

Make health an election priority

Health is on the critical list with budget's being slashed across Australia. Help us make safe patient care a priority in this election.

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It's time to STOP health cuts hurting patient care

Voice your concerns about the lack of employment opportunities for new graduate nurses and midwives.

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Ratios put patient safety first!

Every patient deserves the right to safe care

Help NSW fight to improve nurse-to-patient ratios

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  • NSW Nationals fail to stand up for their public hospitals

    Tuesday 18th June, 2013

    The 2013 NSW National Party annual conference - held in Bathurst on Friday and Saturday 14-15 June - has failed to stand up for rural and regional public hospitals and community health services and has let down country nurses, midwives and patients, the NSWNMA said today.

  • ANF backs calls for rural and remote health workforce funding

    Monday 17th June, 2013

    Australia’s largest health union, the Australian Nursing Federation (ANF), has backed a new push for additional health workforce funding for rural and remote regions.

  • Prison nurses to start protected industrial action over wages and conditions

    Monday 17th June, 2013

    Nurses will hold two-hour stop work rallies tomorrow at 12 noon outside five prisons: Barwon Prison in Lara, Dame Phyllis Frost Centre in Ravenhall (this rally will include nurses from the Melbourne Remand Centre), Hopkins Correctional Centre in Ararat and Loddon Prison in Castlemaine.

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Lee Thomas

Australian Nursing Federation Federal Secretary

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  • Minister for Ageing Mark Butler announces Aged Care Compact

    Minister for Ageing Mark Butler announces Aged Care Compact

    Minister for Ageing Mark Butler announces that the federal Government will provide up to $1.2 billion to raise the wages of aged care workers.

  • Aged Care Workforce Compact

    Aged Care Workforce Compact

    ANF Federal Secretary Lee Thomas congratulates the Gillard Government and Minister for Ageing Mark Butler on the Aged Care Workforce Compact which will start delivering an urgently-needed $1.2 billion funding injection for Australia's aged care nursing and care staff.

  • Premature babies need safe nurse ratios

    Premature babies need safe nurse ratios

    Neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) do not have the same level of mandated nurse-patient numbers as their adult equivalents. Yet it is critically important to have the right number of nurses for these tiny babies.