Tuesday, 18 February 2025

Bills

Safe Patient Care (Nurse to Patient and Midwife to Patient Ratios) Amendment Bill 2025

Introduction and first reading

Mary-Anne THOMAS (Macedon – Leader of the House, Minister for Health, Minister for Ambulance Services) (12:06): I move:

That I introduce a bill for an act to amend the Safe Patient Care (Nurse to Patient and Midwife to Patient Ratios) Act 2015 and for other purposes.

Motion agreed to.

James NEWBURY (Brighton) (12:06): I seek a brief explanation of the bill.

Mary-Anne THOMAS (Macedon – Leader of the House, Minister for Health, Minister for Ambulance Services) (12:06): This bill seeks to amend the Safe Patient Care (Nurse to Patient and Midwife to Patient Ratios) Act 2015 to establish new nurse- and midwife-to-patient ratios in specified public hospital settings.

Read first time.

Ordered to be read second time tomorrow.