NSW Health is offering “crisis” rates up to $3050 a day to doctors after more than half the state’s public hospital psychiatrists resigned.
Foreign doctors fast-tracked to treat patients in Australia are being sold the dream of living near Sydney’s Opera House or the “world-famous” Byron Bay as the NSW government scrambles to plug holes in the mental health system caused by a mass resignation of more than half of the state’s public hospital psychiatrists.
Foreign doctors are being sold the dream of living near the Sydney Opera House or at Byron Bay as the state government desperately tries to fill hospital psychiatrist roles.Minister for Mental Health Rose Jackson said the government was exploring every option to ease impact on patients, including finding staff from overseas “to help plug any gaps”.
Job listings sent to psychiatrists last week advertised dozens of locum psychiatry positions with salaries ranging from $262,376 to $354,479.One agency said NSW Health was offering increased “crisis” rates of up to $3050 a day as well as accommodation and travel allowances to locum psychiatrists willing to fill the vacancies from mid-January. Another said they were about to see an “influx” of NSW psychiatry roles from January onwards.
Dr Ian Korbel, a consultant forensic psychiatrist at Justice Health, said NSW would face the same difficulty attracting fast-tracked foreign doctors that it faced retaining its existing staff.
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