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.

People with mental health conditions wait the longest in emergency out of any patient type. But psychiatrist shortages and a ...

As public hospitals across NSW begin to scale back their mental health services amid a wave of psychiatrist resignations, ...

While these figures predate the pandemic, the crisis has deepened in recent years, especially among adolescent girls, who ...

NSW public sector psychiatrists have doubled down on their threat to walk off the job on Tuesday unless their pay dispute is ...

Public hospitals are preparing to shut seven mental health wards across New South Wales after more than 200 public ...

A total of 43 psychiatrists have followed through on threats to walk away from NSW’s buckling public mental health system and ...

The resignations in New South Wales come in response to what psychiatrists call years of staff shortages and underresourcing.

The IWMF will partner with Vinland Solutions to lead a six-month virtual training program for 20 clinical psychologists and/or psychiatrists to identify and tackle the adverse effects of physical and ...

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 ...

NSW Mental Health Minister Rose Jackson has urged the state’s public hospital psychiatrists to not quit the system en mass, ...