A gap in services for people with mental health and addiction conditions is behind a dramatic increase in presentations at inner-city hospitals, according to emergency room doctors. | EXCLUSIVE Dana_Adele
Emergency room doctors say a gap in services for people with mental health and addiction conditions is behind a dramatic increase in presentations at inner-city hospitals.
“People find it difficult to access primary healthcare because of the cost of going to a GP, and the community mental health services and drug and alcohol support are not there,” she said. Dr Rachel Zordan, co-author of the report, said “there’s clearly a gap in current services” and a need for tailored health services.Marginalised people were left with “no other place to go than a hospital”, she said, often needing acute care for conditions left untreated – meaning “longer hospital admission, and by extension, greater treatment costs”.
Mr Chan said patients with psychosocial conditions often presented with physical health problems such as untreated diabetes and heart disease, wounds and injuries from falls, “things that you would normally address at the GP”. “We’ve got an individual who has been here every day of the week, who makes daily presentations to an emergency department,” he said.
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