Frontline emergency care across NSW has received a significant boost, with an additional 817 paramedics starting on road with NSW Ambulance since the start of the Strategic Workforce and Infrastructure Team (SWIFT) Program.

The NSW government has announced new key health worker accommodation for Kyogle, hoped to help attract more paramedics to the bush.

The latest Bureau of Health Information (BHI) Quarterly Health Report paints a stark picture of ambulance and emergency services in NSW.

Nearly 150 new trainee paramedics and emergency call takers are to join the state’s ambulance service today.

Lismore can look forward to the middle of the year when additional paramedics will be stationed in town

Premier Dominic Perrottet spoke to the media this morning about a new public sector wages policy to provide increased pay for public sector employees including nurses, teachers and paramedics.

Locally and across the state nurses, and paramedics are struggling in the face of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic as they are being asked to do double shifts and manage effectively in health system that is struggling to cope. This has led to an increasing number of nurses and paramedics resigning.

Local paramedics will be able to get free coffee and snacks at selected local cafes, as part of a major community effort to support frontline health workers during the ongoing and increasing COVID-19 outbreak.

The Greens have written to the Premier to ask him to immediately introduce ‘NurseKeeper’ to urgently introduce pandemic pay and bonuses for nurses and paramedics.