'It's the same pattern everywhere': Mental health advocates are calling for a significant funding boost to mental health services as data shows thousands of distressed Australians are flooding into hospital emergency rooms | Dana_Adele
The NSW Health Department refused to share its hospital data, but emergency room physician Simon Judkins, past president of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine , said his colleagues were reporting similar trends in all states and territories.. "For each jurisdiction, there are significant concerns about the mental health needs.
Beyond Blue’s coronavirus wellbeing support service received 4938 calls in the five weeks to May 20, with isolation, anxiety, worry and depression the most common reasons for calling. ACEM president John Bonning said patients with mental health conditions were facing "unacceptably long and dangerous waits" for ongoing psychiatric care.
Professor Ian Hickie from Sydney University's Brain and Mind Centre, whose modelling has forecast a 25 per cent increase in suicides owing to COVID-19, is concerned governments are not taking the issue seriously enough.
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