Fiona Nash (NSW, National Party, Deputy Leader of the Nationals) Share this | Hansard source

As the minister responsible at the time, I immediately convened a roundtable of all of those across the sector to come together and discuss what was going to be the best way forward. I felt that the advice that I would get from those people directly involved in the sector was going to be the most useful in how we went forward. I wrote to all of the state and territory health ministers at the time given that this was something that had to be responded to in collaboration.

In relation to the senator's question, there were not any specific recommendations that resulted after that meeting, but there was very much a collective view that we needed to address the priorities, particularly as CRANAplus had put them forward, around zero tolerance of violence for every health professional workforce, all of the after-hours call-outs to be accompanied, a national safety working group to be established, work around the work health and safety issues, and working on models to look at duress systems. They put forward some very good proposals that we have collectively been working on. (Time expired)