Psychiatrists threaten mass resignation in fight with hospital bosses over low pay
NSW union president Dr Nicholas Spooner says the state’s psychiatrists are paid far less than their interstate peers.
Hospital psychiatrists in NSW are threatening mass resignation unless their salaries are lifted to address a pay gap they say is behind “disastrous” staffing shortages.
With the pay of public sector psychiatrists some 30% below their interstate peers, 140 of the 493 psychiatry positions in the NSW state system are now vacant.
