BREAKING: Healthcare workers in Victoria's public hospitals and ambulance services will receive an extra $3000 payment as part of a $353m winter retention package.
All staff who work in Victoria’s public hospitals and ambulance services – including nurses, midwives, doctors, and paramedics – will get an extra $3000 payment as part of a $353 million retention package to support healthcare workers throughout winter.
“It’s also about bringing people back into the system who might have been out of the system for a period of time. Andrews said the Victorian government had been in discussions with NSW, which introduced a similar payment for healthcare workers earlier this week.“This is not a cost. It’s an investment in making sure that we can get through this most challenging time, winter, but winter during a pandemic, is obviously, very, very difficult,” Andrews said.
A Sydney boy who went missing on Wednesday has been found after surviving a night of freezing temperatures in The Hills District.
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