90 hours in emergency: Leaked patient list reveals dire effects of psychiatrist crisis
Severely ill and distressed patients are waiting three and a half days in emergency for mental health beds that don’t exist in a shocking escalation of the state’s psychiatrist workforce crisis.
System under strain as mass psychiatrist resignations begin
The dispute between public sector psychiatrists and the NSW government is at risk of expanding, with salaried doctors in ...
Emergency department workers in NSW brace for fallout, increased demand in wake of psychiatrist resignations
With more than half of the state's staff specialist psychiatrists set to resign by the end of the week, health workers say ...
What train drivers, psychiatrists and others get paid
The recent spate of disruptive industrial disputes between governments and public sector workers has sparked conversations ...
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Australian Public Psychiatrists Resign En Masse
The resignations in New South Wales come in response to what psychiatrists call years of staff shortages and underresourcing.
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A better way to treat youth mental health
While these figures predate the pandemic, the crisis has deepened in recent years, especially among adolescent girls, who ...
NSW Mental Health Minister Rose Jackson warns more psychiatrists could quit troubled health system
A total of 43 psychiatrists have followed through on threats to walk away from NSW’s buckling public mental health system and ...
Psychiatrists have abandoned a broken mental health system. Is reform possible?
The NSW mental health system has entered uncharted waters. Stripped of scores of psychiatrists, public hospitals have emergency contingency plans in place but the ramifications of this system collapse ...
Mental Health Minister Rose Jackson urge public hospital psychiatrists to remain at work amid walkout threat
NSW Mental Health Minister Rose Jackson has urged the state’s public hospital psychiatrists to not quit the system en mass, ...