Psychiatric care in NSW facing collapse because of poor pay and conditions, court hears as arbitration battle begins

Interest amongst junior doctors in New South Wales to become psychiatrists is half compared to Victoria because of poor pay and work conditions, a court has heard. As a result, NSW was facing the potential “collapse” of its trainee system, the Industrial Relations Commission (IRC) court in Sydney heard, as day one of arbitration between psychiatrists and the state government got underway. At least 10 hospitals in NSW risk being stripped of accreditation to train junior doctors to become psychiatrists because of “serious concerns” about quality of training due to staff shortages, the court was told. The doctors union, the

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