At least 10 hospitals in NSW risk being stripped of accreditation to train junior doctors as ‘serious concerns’ raised in Industrial Relations Commission court

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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.