20/05/2026
We’re putting more nurses in hospitals through our expansion of the Safe Staffing Levels rollout!
Planning is now underway to implement the next phase of Safe Staffing Levels, which will be a ratio of 1 nurse to 4 patients in medical, surgical and specialty wards in NSW public hospitals.
This is better for staff and better for patients and will relieve pressure on our hospitals that face increasing numbers of presentations each day.
Members of the NSW Nurses and Midwives' Association have campaigned for these generational reforms for well over a decade. I'm very grateful for the nurses and midwives who continue to advocate for their patients and push for a better health system.
We’ve already recruited 900 nurses for safe staffing ratios in emergency departments, now with this announcement, we’ll be supporting more nurses and their patients right across our hospitals.
