NSW Health Boosts Ranks with More Medics and Nurses
More paramedics, more nurses and more doctors will be joining the NSW health system including almost 70 new paramedic interns from today.
It comes as 24 NSW public hospitals have either achieved or are in the process of implementing safe staffing ratios in their emergency departments, with the NSW Government announcing yesterday that Campbelltown Hospital had been the latest to complete its rollout.
The NSW Government has also recruited more doctors for the bush, and will soon commence its campaign inviting junior doctors to join the NSW health system.
NSW Ambulance will today welcome 67 new paramedic interns and 6 new paramedic inductees following an official ceremony at the State Operations Centre, Sydney Olympic Park.
They join almost 600 new paramedics who have entered the service since the beginning of the year.
The new recruits come from a range of backgrounds and experiences, including Rylie Muirhead who was inspired to join NSW Ambulance after being a carer for her mum and experiencing frequent interactions with paramedics, and Carissa Johnson who is following in her paramedic father’s footsteps.
The 67 paramedic interns will be posted across NSW to complete the on-road portion of their 12-month internships, before taking permanent positions in metropolitan and regional areas.
The 6 paramedic inductees, who previously worked as paramedics interstate or overseas, will be posted across metropolitan and regional locations in NSW for nine weeks, prior to becoming registered paramedics with NSW Ambulance.
Campbelltown Hospital became the latest hospital to achieve safe staffing ratios, the government announced.
It joins 9 other NSW public hospitals to complete the rollout of safe staffing ratios, including:
This is in addition to the 14 NSW public hospitals which are in the process of implementing safe staffing ratios, including:
The NSW Government will also welcome more doctors to boost the regional health workforce.
The Rural Generalist Single Employer Pathway (RGSEP) supports future rural generalists in their training across both primary care and hospital settings, through a length-of-training contract which allows them to keep and accrue entitlements across both settings; as well as receive the same pay and conditions as their hospital trained counterparts.
Last year, the program recruited 29 trainees across regional local health districts, joining a broader cohort of 142 working in regional NSW.
Positions for the 2026 clinical year are available in Far West, Illawarra Shoalhaven, Hunter New England, Mid North Coast, Murrumbidgee, Northern NSW, Southern NSW and Western NSW LHDs.
Applications for the Rural Generalist Single Employer Pathway program open on 15 July and close on 5 August 2025.
Junior doctors from Australia and abroad are being encouraged to become part of the country’s leading public health system, with the 2025 NSW Health Junior Medical Officer (JMO) recruitment campaign opening next Tuesday, 15 July 2025.
NSW Health is inviting junior doctors who have completed their first two postgraduate years of medical practice to apply to develop their skills in the country’s largest and most advanced public health system.
Junior doctors are encouraged to consider roles in rural and regional areas, with incentive packages available for those looking to support these communities and gain experience in a different setting.
Junior Medical Officers provide essential frontline medical care to the millions of people who use health services across the state.
Those recruited will start in their new roles at the beginning of the 2026 clinical year and will be offered positions in a range of specialties including general medicine, intensive and emergency care, pain management, psychiatry, pathology and more.
The Minns Labor Government is rebuilding an engaged, capable and supported workforce, by:
Quotes attributable to Minister for Health, Ryan Park:
“From day one, we said that our top priority was to rebuild a capable and supported health workforce.
“We abolished the wages cap, undoing a decade of wage suppression; rolled out safe staffing ratios; recruited more paramedics; and brought more health workers out to the bush.
“Under the Minns Labor Government, the NSW health workforce is experiencing the most significant structural reform in its history.”
Quotes attributable to NSW Ambulance Chief Executive Dr Dominic Morgan:
“These new paramedics have learned to think fast, act fast, and to deliver the clinical expertise they have learned.
“Today, they are graduates – but from tomorrow, they are clinicians ready to think clinically, treat confidently, and care completely.
“With every call, assessment and intervention, these recruits will become part of a patient’s journey.”
Quotes attributable to paramedic intern Rylie Muirhead:
“As a child observing paramedics tend to my mum, I was inspired by their compassion and kindness.
Being part of a patient’s journey through healthcare will be very rewarding”
Quotes attributable to paramedic intern Carissa Johnson:
“To be a paramedic and continue a family legacy is the culmination of a long-held ambition.
The training has been intense but fun, and I am looking forward to putting my skills into practice”.
https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/news/Pages/20250711_00.aspx