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Jan 2024
12m 21s

Digging into nurse numbers with Health M...

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It's taken months of asking by the nurses union, but now the government is finally sharing some of the most recent nurse vacancy and recruitment numbers. We spoke with Health Minister Tom Osborne. 
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