
03/06/2025
Victoria is not much better, including child and adolescent mental health. Not fit for purpose.
We need more voices to rise up, and speak up, to the inherent failures in the public hospital and mental health systems in Victoria.
It serves us all to explore, understand and address the pathology within the public hospital and mental health systems (adult & child), before projecting the brokenness of the hospital system onto the pathogy of the patient.
It shouldn't have to be this hard to advocate for what is right and fair.
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Distraught families say the New South Wales public mental health system abandoned their loved ones when they needed care the most — and doctors warn the crisis is only getting worse.