Health
MEDIA RELEASE
1 November 2025
Venue owners, licensees, managers and bar staff will face tougher sanctions for failing to ensure a safe workplace for staff and patrons.
Health
MEDIA RELEASE
29 October 2025
Increasing the wellbeing and economic productivity of the state’s night workers is the focus of a new Minns Labor Government action plan, which includes transport, safety and health initiatives.
Health
MEDIA RELEASE
28 October 2025
This week, 16 highly qualified intensive care paramedics (ICPs) have been deployed across NSW after completing 27 weeks of specialist training to extend their clinical practice.
Health
MEDIA RELEASE
28 October 2025
The NSW Government has today formally responded to the 2024 Drug Summit recommendations, building on its commitment to reform the state’s whole-of-government approach to alcohol and other drug use, which will place harm reduction and wellbeing at the forefront of policy.
Health
MEDIA RELEASE
22 October 2025
Enabling works to prepare the site for the Canterbury Hospital Redevelopment have commenced, bringing new and expanded health services one step closer for the local community.
Health
MEDIA RELEASE
22 October 2025
Bankstown-Lidcombe, Hornsby, Lismore and Orange Hospitals have now begun rostering to Safe
Staffing Levels in their emergency departments (ED), as the Minns Labor Government continues to
deliver on its promise to deliver the historic staffing reform.
Health
MEDIA RELEASE
21 October 2025
The Northern Beaches Hospital’s shift to public ownership is nearing its conclusion, with in-principle agreement reached with Healthscope’s receivers on a $190 million payment for the transition.
Health
MEDIA RELEASE
13 October 2025
For the first time in NSW history, more than 400,000 NSW Government workers in hospitals, schools, local councils and other public services can today seek orders and damages from the NSW Industrial Relations Commission to stop workplace bullying and sexual harassment.
Health
MEDIA RELEASE
4 October 2025
In a move to combat opioid-related harm, the NSW Government is making the life-saving opioid reversal medication naloxone available to licensed venues across the state to include as part of their first aid kits.
Health
MEDIA RELEASE
1 October 2025
The three-month grace period for NSW retailers and wholesalers to apply for a licence to sell tobacco or non-tobacco smoking products as part of the Minns Labor Government’s new Tobacco Licensing Scheme ends at midnight tonight.