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ANMF Media Release: ANMF MEMBER RALLY TO SAVE HOBART CLINIC
ANMF Member Rally To Save Hobart Clinic 2 October 2025 What: Media Opportunity When: 11:30-12:30, Thursday 2 October, 2025 Where: Cnr Davey & Murray Street; followed by Speeches at The Executive Building Who: ANMF Member Operations Manager Phoebe Mansell and ANMF Members The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation [...]
ANMF Media Release: ANMF Supporting Members Amid Hobart Clinic Closure
ANMF Supporting Members Amid Hobart Clinic Closure 18 September, 2025 The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation Tasmanian Branch will today support members at The Hobart Clinic following the announcement of the closure of the clinic by October 31. ANMF Tasmanian Branch Secretary, Emily Shepherd said this news comes [...]
LGH Emergency Department Staffing Fail and Patient Grid Lock
LGH Emergency Department Staffing Fail and Patient Grid Lock 15 September 2025 The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation Tasmanian Branch will again today be supporting members in the Launceston General Hospital Emergency Department, who have started the week with a completely full Emergency Department while working five nursing [...]
ANMF Media Release: The ANMF Attend Tasmanian Industrial Commission Due to Safe Staffing Failure
The ANMF Attend Tasmanian Industrial Commission Due to Safe Staffing Failure September 2025 The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation Tasmanian Branch will today attending the Tasmanian Industrial Commission after lodging a dispute against the Tasmanian Health Service for failing to ensure safe staffing on a surgical ward at [...]
ANMF Media Release: LGH Staffing Woes Continue with Dire Staffing Shortages
LGH Staffing Woes Continue with Dire Staffing Shortages 8 September 2025 The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation Tasmanian Branch today is continuing to support members at the Launceston General Hospital who are grappling with short staffing across multiple wards and units. ANMF Branch Secretary Emily Shepherd said the [...]
ANMF Media Release: Access and Flow Solutions – Just Need the Basics
ANMF Media Release: Access and Flow Solutions - Just Need the Basics Tuesday 2 September 2025 The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation Tasmanian Branch today welcomed the opportunity to meet in the coming weeks with Health Minister Bridget Archer to discuss the ongoing access and flow challenges experienced by [...]
ANMF Media Release: Win for NWRH theatres in TIC with litany of workload grievances to come from ANMF members
Win for NWRH theatres in TIC with litany of workload grievances to come from ANMF members 27 August 2025 What: WIN FOR NWRH THEATRES IN TIC When: 10:30am, Thursday 27 August 2025 Where: 19 Brisbane Street, Launceston Who: ANMF Tasmanian Branch Secretary Emily Shepherd The Australian Nursing and [...]
ANMF Media Release: ANMF Calls on Government To Save RHH Clinical Trials Unit
ANMF Calls on Government To Save RHH Clinical Trials Unit August 2025 What: RHH Clinical Trials Unit, Nurses Take Action When: 1300hrs on Thursday, 21 August 2025 Where: Outside the Royal Hobart Hospital (RHH), Campbell Street, Hobart Who: ANMF Tasmanian Branch Secretary Emily Shepherd & RHH CTU & [...]
ANMF Media Release: Ten News Response
Ten News Response August 2025 Skill mix is one critical factor which contributes to the overall safe staffing or a clinical unit and translates into safe and quality care provision Delicately balancing the skill mix is a shift by shift, daily, weekly and monthly [...]
ANMF Media Release: ANMF Tasmanian Branch Demands Legislated Nurse-to-Patient Ratios and Recognition of Babies in Midwifery Staffing
ANMF Tasmanian Branch Demands Legislated Nurse-to-Patient Ratios and Recognition of Babies in Midwifery Staffing July 2025 The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) Tasmanian Branch has been calling for all major political parties to commit to legislating nurse-to-patient ratios in Tasmania. ANMF Acting-Branch Secretary Phoebe Mansell said the [...]