- The Crisafulli Government is delivering significant increases to wages and conditions for Queensland’s Visiting Medical Officers.
- In-principle agreement has been reached following negotiations between Queensland Health, the Australian Salaried Medical Officers’ Federation Queensland and Together Queensland.
- The proposed agreement includes a wage increase of up to 10.5 per cent over three years plus enhanced allowances.
Queensland Health has reached in-principle agreement with the Australian Salaried Medical Officers’ Federation Queensland and Together Queensland for increased wages and conditions for Visiting Medical Officers.
For the first time in over 17 years, Queensland Health has secured an in-principle agreement with the unions before the expiry of the current enterprise agreement, ensuring Visiting Medical Officers can receive their pay increases without delay. The agreement includes wage increases of up to 10.5 per cent over the life of the agreement and will benefit more than 500 Visiting Medical Officers working across Queensland Health.
It follows the successful negotiation of five new Queensland Health enterprise agreements, delivering pay rises for more than 116,000 employees and demonstrating the Crisafulli Government’s commitment to negotiating in good faith with unions and supporting the state’s health workforce.
Minister for Health and Ambulance Services Tim Nicholls welcomed the outcome, thanking all parties for their constructive approach to negotiations.
“This agreement demonstrates the Crisafulli Government’s commitment to strengthening Queensland Health’s workforce after a decade of decline under Labor,” Minister Nicholls said.
“Visiting Medical Officers play a vital role in delivering specialist healthcare across Queensland, particularly in regional and rural communities where recruiting specialist doctors can be more challenging. “They help to ensure public hospitals can access specialist expertise, support on-call service and provide timely care for patients by bringing private specialists into the public health system.
“Reaching this agreement before the current enterprise agreement expired means these dedicated clinicians can receive their pay increases without unnecessary delay, while demonstrating what can be achieved through constructive, good-faith negotiations.”
