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Hospital staff at breaking point, research reveals |
31 March 2008: “Benchmarked against some key measures of workplace relations, the public hospital system in NSW is lagging much further behind other workplaces with regard to work intensity, employee consultation and trust between managers and employees,” says a new report into the public hospital workforce.
More than half of the 1500 doctors and nurses recently surveyed by Sydney University’s Workplace Research Centre have seriously considered leaving the NSW public health system in the past 12 months.
“This research confirms the anecdotal evidence we have been hearing for many years, “said AMA (NSW) President Dr Andrew Keegan.
The report said: “NSW public hospital doctors and nurses are working in appalling conditions; they are feeling under-valued, overworked and exhausted.”
“The levels of trust between these clinicians and their managers are amongst the lowest of any workforce in Australia. While around 70 per cent of Australian workers report they can trust their manager to inform them about what is really happening at work, only 17 per cent of doctors and 34 per cent of nurses in NSW public hospitals have such trust,” said Workplace Research Centre Director, Dr John Buchanan,
The survey was undertaken for AMA (NSW), the Australian Salaried Medical Officers Federation (ASMOF) NSW and the NSW Nurses Association.
Working Conditions for Doctors and Nurses in NSW Public Hospitals
Survey for Submission to the Garling Inquiry
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