A 40-tonne bridge has been lifted into place to connect the future $540 million Westmead Centre for Mental Health to Westmead Hospital.
The state’s mental health services are still using an IT system that was developed in 1999. The one that is meant to replace it is two years late, $24 million over budget, and incompatible with most hospitals’ systems.
With childhood anxiety rates climbing, the government is investing in mental fitness programs in schools.
With childhood anxiety rates climbing, the government is investing in mental fitness programs in schools.
Health & Wellness
Readers discuss mental health and the cost when it goes untreated.
World News
Psychiatrists warn gaps in Victoria’s mental healthcare are allowing preventable tragedies in the wake of the attack on MP Helen Haines, including a recent quintupling of homicides by people with psychosis.
World News
Psychiatrists warn gaps in Victoria’s mental healthcare are allowing preventable tragedies in the wake of the attack on MP Helen Haines, including a recent quintupling of homicides by people with psychosis.
Health & Wellness
The system is failing to keep the small cohort of the most acutely unwell in treatment for their own safety, and everyone else’s.
National (Nepal)
Consider the phrase “I am OK.” It is one of the most standard and automatic responses we hear when asking people, “How are you?" It could be true, or it could mean, “I don't know how I am feeling,” “I don't want to trouble anyone,” or simply, “I don't think anyone will understand.” Beneath that common response could lie enormous, deep cultural silence regarding one’s emotional distress.