Aged Care Updates – Statewide Southern Cross Care Tasmania (SCCT) Changes to leadership at SCCT The ANMF encourages members to feedback issues related to absence or instability of [...]
Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccination Mandate The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation Tasmanian Branch (ANMF) have received a response from the Secretary of the [...]
Aged Care Mandatory Vaccinations Members are reminded that (in accordance with the public health order) they will need to provide evidence to [...]
Southern Cross Care (SCC) Enterprise Bargaining Agreement (EBA) SCC have requested a postponement of bargaining by 6 months with no offer of [...]
Aged Care Vaccination Direction On 13 August 2021, The Director of Public Health signed a Direction Mandatory Vaccination for Certain Healthcare Workers [...]
Aged Care Mandatory Vaccination Despite ongoing advocacy at both State and Federal levels regarding the mandate for vaccination of all Aged Care [...]
COVID-19 Vaccine FAQs Tasmanians are encouraged to get the COVID-19 vaccine, but with hesitancy filling the news headlines every day, how do [...]
Southern Cross Care Tasmania While Southern Cross Care is promoting their facilities in the media, they are running workers into the ground. [...]
Aged Care Update The state will be opening more vaccine clinics imminently and aged care staff will be provided advanced notice to [...]
Health Recruitment Taskforce The ANMF attended the inaugural Health Recruitment Taskforce on Wednesday 22 June 2021. The Taskforce was convened following a [...]
COVID-19 Vaccination Update The COVID-19 Stakeholder meeting was held on Monday 21 June which was facilitated by the Secretary of Health and [...]
COVID-19 Vaccination Update The vaccination of the health workforce remains a key priority for the Department of Health including those working in [...]
Hospital Demand Roundtable On Friday 4 June the ANMF attended a Hospital Demand Roundtable attended by the Minister for Health and the Secretary of the Department of Health [...]
Annual Delegates Conference 2021 More than 50 delegates from all sectors and regions of Tasmanian heard and debated key issues and challenges facing health around the state as [...]
Dream Horse Movie Ticket Giveaway We think our members deserve a night out, and thanks to our friends at Sony Pictures we have 10 double passes [...]
Are you interested in becoming an elected official for the ANMF Tasmanian Branch? Now is the time. Nominations are called for: Branch President (1) Branch Vice President (1) [...]
2021 State Election Candidate Commitments The State Government Elections will be held this coming Saturday 1 May 2021. In the lead-up [...]
Healthscope The ANMF continues to meet with Healthscope Human Resource Management regarding the current Enterprise Agreement negotiations. Members have ongoing concerns about [...]
ANMF and Aged Care - the union that fight for your workloads Do you know that the ANMF is the only union [...]
Overview: COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout Update #5 The ANMF met with COVID-19 Vaccine Roll Out Coordinator, Dale Webster on Monday 12 April regarding [...]
ANMF Health Election Plan In the lead-up to the State Election on 1 May, the ANMF has announced an alternate health policy. [...]
Faye Hoppitt Rep of the Year 2021 Do you know an outstanding ANMF Workplace Rep that deserves to be recognised for their [...]
Overview: COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout Update #4 The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation Tasmanian Branch (ANMF) met with Deputy Secretary, Dale Webster, on [...]
Nurses lodge Emergency Department staffing matter with the Tasmanian Industrial Commission 30 March 2021 The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation Tasmanian Branch (ANMF), alongside our members at the [...]
ANMF Staff Profile - Welcome Jane Pond ANMF Organiser, Jane Pond. Jane will be working with members in the South of the State, covering private sector sites. Keep [...]
Tasmania passes voluntary assisted dying legislation On Tuesday 23 March 2021, Tasmania became the third Australian State to legislate voluntary assisted dying. This was passed in the Legislative [...]
Overview: COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout Update #2 The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation Tasmanian Branch (ANMF) on behalf of members attended a COVID-19 [...]
Royal Hobart Hospital Ward K9W The Royal Hobart Hospital (RHH) General Surgical Unit, currently located in K9-West, is an acute service catering [...]
Aged Care Royal Commission Report Released On Monday 1 March 2021, the Federal Government made public the final Royal Commission into Aged [...]
Proposed changes to workplace rules will be bad for workers The Morrison Government has proposed to make changes to the industrial relations [...]
Launceston General Hospital Masterplan Consultation The ANMF has been a stakeholder on the Northern Reference Group for the Launceston General Hospital (LGH) [...]
Overview: COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout Update #1 The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation Tasmanian Branch (ANMF) on behalf of members attended a COVID-19 [...]
Do you know someone who deserves to be recognised? In 2021, the Year of the Health and Care Worker, help us to recognise and [...]
The Drug Education Network is sharing this new resource for primary health care workers, in particular GP's, midwives and nurses. Addressing [...]
Omnibus Bill The Morrison Government has determined to enter the Fair Work Amendment (Supporting Australia’s Economic Recovery) Bill 2020 into Parliament which, [...]
LEGAL ISSUES – including Coronial Inquests and disputed Workers Compensation matters ANMF members are, if it is deemed necessary, eligible to obtain [...]
New Year, New Faces - Yasmin With COVID-19 restrictions easing, we’re excited to be getting back into workplaces. To help us support our members in the North West, [...]
New Year, New Faces - Catelyn With COVID-19 restrictions easing, we’re excited to be getting back into workplaces. To help us support our members in the North, we [...]
The Year of the Health and Care Worker The World Health Assembly, the decision-making body of the World Health Organization (WHO), have [...]
Service Closures over Christmas/New Year As the Christmas and New Year period rapidly approaches, the ANMF would like to remind members of [...]
COVID-19 and Workers Compensation for Aged Care and Private Sector Workers As the borders re-open, it is timely to remind members about how Workers Compensation works with regard [...]
Annual Delegates Conference - Review Last Friday 20 November, ANMF Workplace Rep’s, officials and industry professionals gathered together to be involved in [...]
Taking Care of You 2020 – the Year of the Nurse and the Midwife. When the year started, it was looked at [...]
Budget Update The ANMF attended the Budget Lockup on Thursday 12 November 2020, where the Tasmanian Government finally announced the budget for the 2020-2021 financial year as well [...]
Aged Care Sector COVID-19 Preparedness The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation Tasmanian Branch (ANMF) are representing members across the Aged Care Sector on the recently established Aged Care [...]
Overpayments at Regis Legana facility In September 2020, the ANMF received correspondence from Regis Legana, outlining that they would be pursuing overpayments made with regards to staff who [...]
Supporting members at Bupa South Hobart As reported in our last eNews, Southern Cross Care Tasmania has purchased Bupa South Hobart and will be taking over from 1 [...]
Casual Pool at the Royal Hobart Hospital Over the past few months, the ANMF has been contacted by members stating that they would like to be able to [...]
Southern Cross Care announces Mary's Grange closure and Bupa South Hobart buy out The ANMF were present for the announcement of the closure of Marys Grange on Monday [...]
Newsflash: Mersey Community Hospital Emergency Department The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation Tasmanian Branch (ANMF) were advised just prior to the announcement from The Minister of Health that [...]
