Workforce issues are resulting in fewer people accessing specialist mental health services
Workforce issues are resulting in fewer people accessing specialist mental health services
5 June 2024
A Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission report shows more people are receiving community-based care.
But access to specialist services dropped from 3.8 percent of people in 2018 and 19 -- to 3.4 percent in 2022 and 23.
Board chair Hayden Wano says workforce impacts are across the whole sector.
He says community providers and GPs are finding there's a higher threshold for their patients to be referred to specialist services.
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