Carla Hildebrandt
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‘Ruthless’: Doctors slam child mental health bed cuts (opens the original)
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Western Australia’s peak body for doctors has called on the government to reverse the “ruthless” decision to cut beds from the state’s only inpatient mental health unit for children under 16, warning the system is already operating “beyond capacity”. It comes after this masthead revealed Perth Children’s Hospital ward 5A, the state’s inpatient mental health facility for children and teenagers under 16, would reopen with 16 beds instead of 20, once its refurbishment was complete. Australian Medic
WA cuts children’s mental health beds despite strain on system (opens the original)
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Western Australia will cut the number of inpatient mental health beds available for children in crisis, despite years of warnings that the system is struggling to keep up. This masthead can reveal Perth Children’s Hospital’s mental health inpatient ward for children under 16 will be reduced from 20 beds to 16, once an ongoing refurbishment is complete. The ward is the state’s only inpatient emergency mental health facility for children younger than 16. A Child and Adolescent Health Service spoke
Perth councils move-on notice to homeless sparks backlash (opens the original)
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Five people sleeping rough in Perth’s southern suburbs have been given two days to pack up their personal belongings and move on, sparking backlash on social media. The City of Rockingham notice, issued by the team leader of ranger services on Wednesday, gives the five people camping at Baldivis wetlands until midday on Friday to remove their belongings. According to the notice, anything left behind would be “removed and impounded” and held for between three days to two months, before they would
Perth mother refused payout after daughter’s suicide (opens the original)
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A “desperate” Perth mother whose 18-year-old daughter died hours after being discharged from a Perth mental health hospital has been refused a government payout for ongoing private therapy. Stacey Hildebrandt’s daughter Hailee died in January after being granted overnight leave from an adult mental health ward at Fiona Stanley Hospital. A hospital report after Hailee’s death outlined several issues, including how Hailee had told hospital staff “several times” that she would kill herself on disch
German backpacker reveals fight during 12 days in WA bush (opens the original)
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A German backpacker has revealed how she considered drinking her own urine, slept in caves and suffered hallucinations during her extraordinary 12-day fight for survival in Western Australia’s outback. Carolina Wilga, then 26, was found alive by farmer Tania Henley on July 11 last year after spending 11 nights alone in the Wheatbelt, north-east of Perth, ending a massive police and rescue search sparked when her family and friends lost contact with her. Wilga has revealed new details of her harr
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