PROVIDING BETTER ACCESS TO ACCOMMODATION THROUGH DISCOUNTED RATES

-Dr Susan Velovski, General Surgeon in Lismore/Ballina.

-Leslie Williams Member for Port Macquarie.

-Gurmesh Singh Member for Coffs Harbour.

-Richard Colbran CEO of the Rural Doctors’ Network NSW.

-Dr Claire Blizard, HETI Medical Director.

-NSW Health Secretary, Elizabeth Koff, Nov 2018.

-Annie Owens, Executive Director, Workplace Relations, Ministry of Health.

So far we have contacted those below with correspondence and responses received included in the resource list. We’re making contact with multiple people in order to change this inequality to achieve the same treatment of rural JMOs and metropolitan JMOs. Metropolitan JMOs also receive included flights and accommodation as a part of this award whilst rural JMOs have to apply for a scholarship with multiple criteria and find their own accommodation.

Rural JMOs do not receive this remuneration for the reciprocal rotation. One of the important issues that the RDA NSW is advocating on is: INEQUITY IN PAY AND ACCOMMODATION BETWEEN RURAL AND METRO JMOSĪs per the NSW Award for junior medical officers, “A medical officer, other than an intern, on rotation to one of the facilities listed at Annexure A shall have his/her salary increased by one incremental step, by way of an allowance, for the period the medical officer is working at that hospital on that rotation.” Doctors Dominic Horne and Jean Littlewood were elected to the Management Committee in 2020 to increase representation for the Doctors in Training cohort. The issues impacting Doctors in Training are very important to the RDA NSW.

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