Health staff to get one-off $3000 payment, as 10,000 new nurses, doctors to be hired

Kate McIlwain
Updated June 6 2022 - 1:46pm, first published 1:44pm
Health staff to get one-off $3000 payment, as 10,000 new nurses, doctors to be hired
Health staff to get one-off $3000 payment, as 10,000 new nurses, doctors to be hired

NSW's struggling health system will get $4.5 billion boost in this month's budget, with an extra 10,000 nurses, doctors and other health staff to be hired under a four-year plan.

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Kate McIlwain

Kate McIlwain

Journalist

For more than a decade, I've helped the Illawarra Mercury set the news agenda across the region. Currently I'm the paper's health reporter - covering the stories of Illawarra workers and residents in the wake of a global pandemic and at a time where our health systems are stretched to the limit.

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