New South Wales
The Australian State of New South Wales in southeast Australia has a population of over 6.7 million, in which over half live in or around the state capital, Sydney. Sydney is Australia's largest and most industrialized city with over 53 hospitals managed by New South Wales Department of Health.
Professional Connections and the ICE Group are one of the four recruitment agencies exclusively retained by the New South Wales Department of Health to recruit nurses, mental health nurses and midwives. We are the only one of the Agencies based in Europe.
There are vacancies in all specialities in Sydney Public Health Hospitals. Generally we require two years experience but we can place newly qualified Mental Heatlh Nurses and Midwives.
Vacancies are continuously changing so for a full list of current nursing, mental health and midwifery posts see our jobs page.
New South Wales Vital Statistics
With over 6.7 million inhabitants, New South Wales is Australia's most populated state,
with a little over 4.2 million living in the state capital Sydney. It's health services are run by NSW Health, with over 100,000 employees they strive to provide fairer access and a better value and quality of health care to improve the health of its people.
- Population: 6,731,295
- Male Life Expectancy: 76.4 years
- Female Life Expectancy: 81.9 years
- Hospital Beds (per 1,000 of population): 3.8
- Doctors (per 100,000 of population): 250
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