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Tired doctors cannot 'switch off' from saving patients
Australian Community Media
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4/8/2025
Doctors across NSW have gone on strike in a bid for better pay and conditions. Video via AAP.
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Safe Care!
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Safe Condition!
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Safe Care!
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Safe Condition!
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Safe Care!
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Safe Condition!
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Safe Condition!
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Safe Care!
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It's gotten to the point in New South Wales where conditions are declining.
00:12
We're hemorrhaging staff.
00:13
We are currently dealing with ballooning waitlists for surgery,
00:17
ballooning waitlists for specialist outpatient clinics,
00:19
ballooning wait times in our emergency departments
00:22
simply because we don't have the staff to see our patients.
00:25
Patient care is declining simply by virtue of the fact that we can't staff our hospitals appropriately.
00:30
We're chronically understaffed and enough's enough.
00:33
Any one of our doctors here who are striking today could make 20 or 30% more money
00:38
just by simply moving to Brisbane or Melbourne.
00:41
And at this point we're finding that we're losing hope in discussions with the state government on these issues.
00:50
We've been at the table now for over a year
00:53
and the government has stood up and walked out.
00:56
Without pay parity with other states in Australia we're left behind
01:02
and fundamentally many of the doctors within New South Wales
01:05
are finding that they just have to move into state to do the jobs that they want to do
01:10
to provide the care for the patients that they want to be able to provide.
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