The Minns Labor Government is risking leaving the NSW Health system without more than 1500 paramedics \u2013 with 3 in 5 threatening to boycott their professional registration, leaving them as ambulance drivers.
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Shadow Health Minister Matt Kean said Chris Minns and his Health Minister Ryan Park are putting patients across NSW in potential danger if they allow paramedics across the state to boycott their professional registration tomorrow.
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\u201cThe Minns Labor Government will be giving people a very unhappy Christmas and New Year by leaving NSW badly short of paramedics able to handle patients,\u201d said Mr Kean.
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\u201cThis is the result of Chris Minns\u2019 false election promises to give union bosses a pay rise without having to pay for it \u2013 while in his first Budget cutting NSW Health\u2019s funding, leaving the community to pay for it either with higher costs or worse services.\u201d
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We are seeing all talk and no action from this Government. A Government that was voted in on the premise of delivering its promises. And a Government that has failed to do so.\u201d
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Shadow Minster for Regional Health Bronnie Taylor is calling on the Premier to stop the lies, saying paramedics are rightly angry.
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\u201cFor months, the Premier has told the people of NSW that professional recognition for paramedics was the first step in Labor\u2019s Health Plan,\u201d Mrs Taylor said. \u201cThe cornerstone of Labor\u2019s election campaign was the promise of a pay rise in line with inflation, but so far we have seen nothing and this level of deceit is utterly disgraceful.\u201d
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\u201cThe Government promised an additional 500 paramedics for regional NSW and now we are left asking if this will also be another broken promise.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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