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NAPP backs NSW Parliamentary Inquiry into Mental Health Services
NAPP backs NSW Parliamentary Inquiry into Mental Health Services as this is the most important development to address the problems of the controversial Richmond Report
Mental Illness Crisis – All Deaths Must be Made Public
Mental illness crisis, since a policy of ‘de-institutionalisation’ has been used as a cover for massive cuts to mental health facilities there have been many deaths of patients both in and out of NSW hospitals over the last 10 years.
Australia’s Most Unwanted – Our mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, sons and daughters with mental illness
Who are Australia’s most unwanted? Some people are surprised that they are our mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, sons and daughters with mental illness
More Time with Mental Illness Patients Saves Lives
More Time with Mental Illness Patients Saves Lives as opposed to the Federal government cutbacks whose effect is to reduce the time spent with patients suffering episodes of acute mental illness is preventing a reduction in Australia’s suicide rate
Mental Health Patients Need Federal Government Reassurance on Health Cuts
Mental Health Patients Need Federal Government Reassurance on the proposed cuts to patient rebates for specialist medical services is creating needless anxiety and uncertainty for patients with mental illness
Medicare Restrictions on Long Term Psychiatric Treatment Putting Lives at Risks
Medicare restrictions on long term psychiatric treatment putting lives at risks Media Release - 13 July 2000 Restrictions on patients undergoing long term psychiatric treatment must be removed if Australia is serious about assisting people at risk of suicide said Dr...
New and better facilities needed for mentally ill
Better facilities needed for mentally ill All State Governments must start building short and long term care facilities to accommodate mentally ill patients if we are to reduce the incidence of police shootings of severely disturbed people
Call for Independent Inquiry into the Victorian Public Psychiatric System
A call for independent inquiry into the state of the Victorian public psychiatric system following the recent Coronial findings into the death of a tourist, and the closure of the Royal Park Psychiatric Hospital, the last stand-alone psychiatric institution in Victoria.
Letter to the Editor – The Australian.
Letter to the Editor - The Australian. Media Release 4 April 2000 Dear Sir/Madam The reporting of the setback in negotiations between Dr Wooldridge and General practitioner groups to curb supposedly rising costs in medicine (W/E Aust April 3-4) really misses the main...
Psychiatrists Condemn MACC Project
Psychiatrists Condemn MACC Project Media Release - 5 February 2000 A private health fund sponsored project known as MACC (Measures of Appropriate Clinical Care) is the pathway to health care rationing President of the National Association of Practising Psychiatrists,...
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