Media Mentions
to contact the executive directly email:
hotline@npaa.asn.au - ATTN: NPAA Secretary
Media Mention Links
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TV Appearances:
Healthcare workers outraged at Queensland construction worker pay deal - Today Show - 11/04/2024
Double pay when it rains, $1000 a week travel bonus - Queensland tradies reap rewards of astonishing new pay conditions - A Current Affair - 11/04/2024
Nursing Crisis Forces Workers to Leave - Sky News - 12/03/2024
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Articles:
Australia is emerging as two countries with east and west divides - The Australian - 21/08/2024
Des Houghton: Why bureaucratics are ruining Queensland’s health sector - Courier Mail - 17/08/2024
Our hardworking nurses are key to fixing the health crisis - The Australian - 01/08/2024
Hospital Solutions Needed - CQ - 10/08/2024
Double pay when it rains, $1000 a week travel bonus - Queensland tradies reap rewards of astonishing new pay conditions - 9 news - 04/24
Based on analysis by NPAA, a shift to put nurses in charge of hospitals can create savings that can be reinvested in higher pay for nurses.
In Australia there are 5 administrators for every 10 nurses. In France and most of Europe, there is 1 administrator for every 10 nurses/midwives.
All References and detailed Calculations can be found at the bottom of the page. In summary, by reducing the Administrator to Nurse/Midwife ratio from 5:10 to 1:10 in Australia would cause a saving of
- QLD: $3,222,300,549.6 per year
- NSW: $ 2,195,101,480 per year
- SA: $572,405,299.2 per year
- Vic: $1,620,370,976.95 per year
- WA: $699,940,756 per year
If these savings were passed on to nurses in the form of a pay rise, the government can afford to pay nurses on average 25% more without increasing the budget.
Sign the Petition:
The Australian Health system originally started with locally run, autonomous hospitals.
The current system does not exist for the benefit of patients and the public, or the frontline healthcare workers, but for the benefit of the tribal network - politicians, bureaucrats and the ALP unions..
The only solution is to minimise the bureaucracy.
The only way to minimise the Brisbane bureaucracy is to relocate their functions of administration to the local hospitals. Let them employ local administrators. Local common sense will discover barely 10-15% of current administrators will be needed
Let’s make our local hospital autonomous, run by nurses managed by a board, elected by the community the local hospital serves, not appointed by a politician.
This is the way to end the cover-ups and ensure that our hospital provides the services that our community needs, rather than what the bureaucrats and politicians dictate.
Part 1: A Community Elected Board
A community-elected board will be transparent and accountable to the people who elect them in ways a bureaucracy can and will never be.
Part 2: Empowering Nurses in Hospital Decision-Making
The second part of the solution involves empowering the nurses who work within each health facility.
These are the individuals who have first-hand knowledge of the needs and concerns of their patients and their community. We want at least one of them, elected by the nurses at each facility, not appointed by a politician or bureaucrat, to be on the management board.
If you want to help us deliver local nurse-run hospitals for your communities - Sign the Petition
Calculations & References
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Queensland:
Queensland Calculations:
Putting nurses in charge of our hospitals and having less administrators running hospitals out of Queensland would cause a saving of ($3,222,300,549.6 per year)
Ave administrator salary per year in QLD Health = $100,881
Total reduction in administrators = 18000
Total savings to spend on nurses = $1,815,858,000
Increase in pay per nurse = $40,352.4
Average nurse salary in QLD Health = $107,601
Total percentage increase = 37.5%
This means there are 22500 administrators in QLD (costing $2,269,822,500 per annum).
If we did 1 administrator for every 10 nurses that would be 4500 administrators in QLD (costing $453,964,500 per annum).
References:
Average administrator salary per year in QLD Health
https://www.health.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0022/1245334/Admin-stream_HHS_wage-rates.pdf
QLD Health nurse salary average
https://www.health.qld.gov.au/hrpolicies/wage-rates/nursing#2023
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New South Wales:
New South Wales Calculations:
Putting nurses in charge of our hospitals and having less administrators running hospitals out of NSW would cause a saving of ($ 2,195,101,480 per year)
Ave administrator salary per year in NSW Health = $99,777.34
Total reduction in administrators = 22000
Total savings to spend on nurses = $ 2,195,101,480
Increase in pay per nurse = $39910.94
Average nurse salary in NSW Health = $103,724.4
Total percentage increase = 38.5%
This means there are 27500 administrators in NSW (costing $2,743,876,850 per annum) .
If we did 1 administrator for every 10 nurses that would be 5500 administrators in NSW (costing $548,775,370 per annum).
References:
55,000 FTE nurses in NSW Health
https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/news/Pages/20220210_03.aspx
Average nurse salary in NSW Health
https://www1.health.nsw.gov.au/pds/ActivePDSDocuments/IB2023_041.pdf
Ave administrator salary per year in NSW Health
https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/careers/conditions/Awards/hsu-he-general-administrative-staff.pdf
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South Australia:
South Australia Calculations:
Putting nurses in charge of our hospitals and having less administrators running hospitals out of SA Health would cause a saving of ($572,405,299.2 per year)
Ave administrator salary per year in SA Health = $88728.5
Total reduction in administrators = 6451.2
Total savings to spend on nurses = $572,405,299.2
Increase in pay per nurse = $35491.4
Average nurse salary in SA Health = $103,204.5
Total percentage increase = 34.4%
This means there are 8064 administrators in SA (costing $715,506,624 per annum)
If we did 1 administrator for every 10 nurses that would be 1612.8 administrators in SA Health (costing $143,101,324.8 per annum).
References:
16,128 FTE nurses in SA Health
https://www.publicsector.sa.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/955304/OCPSE-WIR2023.pdf
Average nurse salary in SA Health
https://www.anmfsa.org.au/Web/membership/Your_EBA_and_Pay_Rates.aspx
Ave administrator salary per year in SA Health - data found here:
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Victoria:
Victoria Calculations:
Putting nurses in charge of our hospitals and having fewer administrators running hospitals out of Vic DH would cause a saving of ($1,620,370,976.95 per year)
Ave administrator salary per year in Vic DH = $106,451.8
Total reduction in administrators = 15221.64
Total savings to spend on nurses = $1,620,370,976.95
Increase in pay per nurse = $42,580.72
Average nurse salary in Vic DH = $101,988.952
Total percentage increase = 41.75%
38,054.1 FTE nurses in Victoria
5 administrators for every 10 nurses in Victoria means there are 19,027.05 administrators in Victoria (costing $2,025,463,721.19 per annum).
If we did 1 administrator for every 10 nurses that would be 3805.41 administrators in Vic DH (costing $405,092,744.238 per annum).
References:
38,054.1 FTE nurses in Victoria https://vpsc.vic.gov.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/SOPS-Workforce-2022-Employment-numbers-over-time.xlsx
Average nurse salary
Ave administrator salary per year https://www.vhia.com.au/wp-content/uploads/Bul-2722-Attachment-A.pdf
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Western Australia:
Western Australia:
Putting nurses in charge of our hospitals and having less administrators running hospitals out of WA Health would cause a saving of ($699,940,756 per year)
Average administrator salary per year in WA Health = $112,415
Total reduction in administrators = 6226.4
Total savings to spend on nurses = $699,940,756
Increase in pay per nurse = $44,966
Average nurse salary in WA Health = $122,532
Total percentage increase = 36.7%
15,566 FTE nurses in WA Health
5 administrators for every 10 nurses in WA means there are 7783 administrators in WA (costing $874,925,945 per annum).
If we did 1 administrator for every 10 nurses that would be 1556.6 administrators in WA Health (costing $174,985,189 per annum).
References:
Average nurse salary - https://www.health.wa.gov.au/~/media/Corp/Documents/Health-for/Industrial-relations/Awards-and-agreements/Nurses-Registered-and-Enrolled-Mental-Health/Nurses-and-Midwives-Administrative-Payment-2022.pdf
Average administrator salary per year - https://www.health.wa.gov.au/~/media/Corp/Documents/Health-for/Industrial-relations/Awards-and-agreements/Salaried-officers/WA-Health-System-HSUWA-PACTS-Industrial-Agreement-2022.pdf