'Disturbing picture' of mental health in OZschwitz but experts slam her 'bureaucratic' response
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Subject: 'Disturbing picture' of mental health in OZschwitz but experts slam her 'bureaucratic' response Thu Apr 16, 2015 10:35 pm
Mental health experts are dismayed by the federal government's long-awaited response to a National Mental Health Commission report that paints a "disturbing picture" of failures of care and support for ordinary Australians living with mental illness.
Report co-author and psychiatrist Ian Hickie on Thursday called for states that cut funding to mental health to be "named and shamed" and layers of health bureaucracy to be slashed, with the government to fund local health authorities directly and bypass state and federal authorities.