Public hospital psychiatrists to receive 20% pay rise after winning dispute with NSW Health

<p>State’s Industrial Relations Commission hands down decision after 200 doctors threatened to resign in January</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/oct/03/png-agreement-aukus-submarines-pact-anthony-albanese-richard-marles-retired-admiral-slams-aukus-deal-gaza-flotilla-intercepted-ntwnfb">Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates</a></p></li><li><p>Get our <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl">breaking news email</a>, <a href="https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3">free app</a> or <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl">daily news podcast</a></p></li></ul><p></p><p>The New South Wales Industrial Relations Commission has handed down a decision finding that the state’s psychiatrists should receive a 20% pay increase.</p><p>The case comes after 200 psychiatrists threatened to resign in January, saying <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jan/19/nsw-psychiatrists-threatening-to-resign-say-its-not-about-money-its-about-the-collapse-of-the-system">it was not about the money but being unable to continue working in a system causing them moral injury</a>, knowing they were <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jan/28/my-daughter-was-involuntarily-admitted-to-a-psych-ward-in-nsw-i-saw-the-crisis-first-hand">providing substandard care to their patients</a> when one in three permanent psychiatrists positions were vacant.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/oct/03/public-hospital-psychiatrists-to-receive-20-pay-rise-after-winning-dispute-with-nsw-health">Continue reading...</a>