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Paramedics to lead mental health emergencies, as police take back seat (opens the original)
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Police will take a back seat during mental health emergency callouts and allow paramedics and health specialists to lead responses under a new agreement intended to better safeguard thousands of highly vulnerable people. The new protocol signed by Victoria Police, Ambulance Victoria and the Department of Health will mean about 60,000 mental health emergency callouts a year will now be treated with a “health-led” response, rather than being considered primarily as law-and-order matters. The move,
Disability provider hit by strikes as funding gap bites (opens the original)
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Workers have walked off the job at Victoria’s largest disability housing provider, despite other operators brokering new workplace deals to reign in costs while trying to secure the homes for hundreds of vulnerable residents. Staff at 35 Scope homes walked off the job on Friday under in an escalation of protected industrial action. The Health and Community Services Union also rallied at the disability provider’s Hawthorn headquarters. Three of the other private providers charged with operating V
‘Genuine life and death’: Emergency departments pushed to the brink by mental health surge (opens the original)
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Nineteen of Victoria’s 21 adult mental health and wellbeing services are failing to meet their target for admitting acutely mentally unwell Victorians to a bed within eight hours. Five years after the state government promised to fix the broken mental health system, data shows more than half of patients are languishing in emergency departments because there are not enough specialist beds to treat them, and most facilities are using seclusion and restraints far more often than they are supposed t
Just two of 21 mental health centres meeting key benchmarks (opens the original)
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Nineteen of Victoria’s 21 adult mental health and wellbeing services are failing to meet their target for admitting acutely mentally unwell Victorians to a bed within eight hours. Five years after the state government promised to fix the broken mental health system, data shows more than half of patients are languishing in emergency departments because there are not enough specialist beds to treat them, and most facilities are using seclusion and restraints far more often than they are supposed t
Deaths of 10 young people put eastern suburbs mental health services on alert (opens the original)
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Two youth suicide clusters in Melbourne’s east involving the deaths of 10 people, the youngest aged 13, have raised new concerns about Victoria’s troubled mental health system. Youth mental health services in the east were put on alert in response to rising teenage tragedies over nine months, but Victoria’s health watchdogs have failed to launch a review to determine if there are any systemic issues or access issues at the heart of the cases. A total of 10 young people, including at least six ch
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