On January 29 this year, NSW health minister John Della Bosca admitted his department owed $117 million in unpaid bills, but argued this was only a "small proportion" of the budget.
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NEWCASTLE On November 9, 40 people attended the launch of My Story by Mamdouh Habib and co-author Julia Collingwood.
McKesson Asia-Pacific, a subsidiary of US multinational medical services operator McKesson Corporation, landed a $176 million government contract to provide an all-hours national health telephone triage system called Healthdirect Australia. It began taking calls in New South Wales in August.
On June 26, NSW Nurses Association branches voted in favour of the pay and conditions offer and classification review offer made by the NSW health department. The first 3.9% pay rise will happen in early July. There are some improvements to conditions; notably, part-timers can choose to increase their contracted hours to the average actually worked over the preceding 12 months.
Between June 10-13, NSW Nurses Association (NSWNA) branches met to consider the state governments paltry offer of a 3.9% wage rise over one year, with strings attached.