Media Release
Inquiry into a Recovery Plan for Nursing and Midwifery Workers
The Standing Committee on Health and Community Wellbeing is undertaking an Inquiry into a Recovery Plan for Nursing and Midwifery Workers.
The Committee is considering the problem of stress experienced by frontline healthcare workers, particularly nurses and midwives and has decided to extend the deadline for providing submissions to the inquiry until 5:00 pm Friday 27 January 2023.
The Committee Chair, Mr. Johnathan Davis MLA, said, ‘It is critically important that the Committee provides solutions-focussed recommendations to Government’.
‘To do that, we need to learn from a range of experiences in order to present crucial evidence to scaffold the health and wellbeing of Canberra’s nursing and midwifery workers’, Mr. Davis said.
Terms of Reference for the inquiry are available on the Committee’s website:
Further information about making a submission to this inquiry is available at:
https://www.parliament.act.gov.au/parliamentary-business/in-committees/Getting-involved
6 December 2022
STATEMENT ENDS.
For further information please contact:
Committee Chair, Mr Johnathon Davis MLA on (02) 6205 0051
Committee Secretary, Dr Adele Chynoweth, on (02) 6207 5498