Thousands of Victorians with severe mental illness spent more than eight hours waiting in emergency departments before being admitted to a psychiatric care bed.
“Not good enough”: Mental Health Minister James Merlino, pictured with the Premier, on the latest data.“Like many parts of our current mental health system, these wait times are completely unacceptable to me and only further illustrate the need for ourGovernment data shows Victoria fell well short of its own benchmark last financial year, with 46 per cent of patients forced to spend an entire work day waiting for proper care.
“I have had to sit in the corridor of a hospital while my child is having a psychotic episode,” she said.“I am being put at risk, so is everyone else.”
Well hopefully now they sacked Mikakos we’ll see some improvement
This’ll trigger the twitter drips.
The only thing 'Gold Standard' about Dan Donut & his Govt is the pure runny sh!t that flows from he and his ministers mouths on all issues. This Govt applies more spin than a washing machine! Lucky, not all of us are dumb enough to believe it all!
“We have the gold standard mental health services, not my words”.
$600 million of our tax money was gifted to filthy live exporters when Porter knew the cruelty case was winnable on appeal. That would have greatly helped these ppl. But gotta keep the corporate ‘farmers’ happy
More bullshit and lies from costello
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