Doctors praise oppositions mental health policy’very much alive‘
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A group of psychiatric nurses say the opposition National Party’s mental health policy will help them fight for mental health care and improve the condition of Australians.
The Greens say the policies will further marginalise mental health in parliament and push people into further dependence on drugs, alcohol and tobacco.
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It바카라 is expected to come in a raft of policy announcements including a commitment to make sure patients can receive the services theyjarvees.com need, but can also go to the courts to seek treatment.
But a group of psychiatric nurses say the opposition policy and the push against patients may actually drive people to engage in further dangerous behaviour.
They believe such measures have been linked with the rise in suicide, and will have an effect on the quality of care in Australia’s hospitals.
„There are other countries with more robust mental health interventions than we do and we have no one to look to when the system gets seriously dysfunctional,“ said nurse Dr Lisa Young.
„We are seeing an epidemic of people taking their own lives in our community because they are being treated, but we are looking at this with the eye of the clinician in mind.“
The new policy will also mean the nurse said it is not always a matter of patients who are seeking care as there is so many people living independently in the country.
The group, which includes nurses at five hospitals in the state, are pushing for the introduction of a no-fault court system, a national drug harm plan that can help patients find treatment and community based support for the first time.
It is also calling for the right to appeal decision-making in many cases, as well as ensuring individuals can access support to get the help they need.
„In any given hour in a day, if we are not sure what someone needs, we are going to be taking them to see a doctor who is going to see them and that doctor has the power to make the appropriate decision to save their life because they have not come up with enough alternative answers and that is the only way it is going to be possible to stop people dying in the first place,“ said Dr Young.
The National Party says they are committed to improving mental health care and making the system fit for the 21st century