No answers to ‘huge’ problem of healthcare worker exodus
The NSW health system is suffering a post-pandemic exodus of highly trained staff, but the major parties have not promised sufficient measures to halt the resignations before this month’s state election, experts say.
The Coalition and Labor have promised to attract new workers into the sector, attempting to offset the growing proportion leaving the state’s public health system. NSW Health said it lost 12.6 per cent of its nursing staff in 2021-22, compared to about 7 per cent annually in the preceding three years.
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