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Victorian mental health royal commission final report finds system operates in crisis mode
Victoria’s mental health system operates in crisis mode, has “catastrophically failed to live up to expectations” and must be rebuilt, a damning report from the state’s mental health royal commission has found.
Key points:
- The report says the mental health system is over-reliant on medication and last year’s bushfires highlighted its failures
- Demand has now overtaken the capacity of the system
- The state government says it will implement all the report’s recommendations
There need to be major changes to stop hospital emergency departments being entry points to assistance and a boost to community-based services which are currently underfunded, the report says.
Among the final report’s 65 recommendations, outlined in a mammoth five-volume…
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