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‘Missing middle’ leaves too many Victorians without mental health support – The Age

One of the reasons the mental health system is vulnerable is because shared funding between state and federal governments leaves large gaps.

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The missing middle has been coined to describe people who fall in the gap between what the state and federally funded systems can provide. These are people who arent considered unwell enough to get care in state-funded mental health services, but who cant access Medicare-funded care or dont benefit from it.
Many people in the missing middle have complex mental health problems, exacerbated by poverty and other social disadvantages. They might have problems with depression, anxiety, problematic u…

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