A mass resignation of public psychiatrists in New South Wales threatens to destabilize the mental health system, with state officials scrambling to implement contingency plans.

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ABC Australia

Australia

'Catastrophic': Two-thirds of public sector psychiatrists set to leave in days

Finding a child and adolescent psychiatrist for Tanya Collins's daughter became so difficult, she was forced to enter the costly private health system. She fears what the loss of about 200 of the state's psychiatrists in seven days could mean.

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Australian Government

Doctors in one state have hit back after the Health Minister pleaded for psychiatrists to not quit in days, saying he’s “spitting the dummy when no one wants to work for them”.

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Murdoch family

Crisis as hundreds of psychiatrists to resign

Emergency departments could bear the brunt of housing large numbers of mental health patients after 60 per cent of one state's psychiatrists threatened to quit.

The West Australian

Kerry Stokes

EDs face surge of patients with psychiatrist exodus

PerthNow

City of Perth

Western Australia

Around 200 psychiatrists in NSW's public health system have submitted their resignations amid an ongoing pay dispute with the state government.

SBS News

Sydney

New South Wales

NSW psychiatrists are resigning en masse over a pay dispute. Could it happen elsewhere?

Hundreds of psychiatrists are leaving the New South Wales public health system in less than a week amid an ongoing pay dispute, sparking fears of serious disruptions in mental health treatment.About 200 psychiatrists have resigned effective before the end of January, with the first to leave their jobs from January 20.﻿NSW Health said in a post on social media that they "greatly valued" the doctors and urged them to reconsider.READ MORE: Sydney r…

9News

Fears of mental health disaster as hundreds of psychiatrists quit

Hunter New England psychiatrists resign en masse, demanding a 25% pay rise amid critical system challenges.

Newcastle Herald

Australian Community Media

Newcastle

Psychiatrist crisis to hit Hunter New England as pay dispute escalates

The mass resignations are another expression of the rising opposition of health and other state sector workers to the Labor’s pay caps and its ongoing attacks on public health.

Ad Fontes Media

World Socialist Web Site

International Committee of the Fourth International

United States

Australia: Hundreds of public hospital psychiatrists resign to demand increased staffing and decent wages

Hospitals are planning to close several vital specialist mental health beds across a state as more than half of public psychiatrists prepare to resign. One doctor has warned that mental health patients will likely fill out emergency departments as the NSW government scrambles to make arrangements ahead of the scheduled mass resignation. Some 203 of […]

Fiji Broadcasting Corporation

Politics of Fiji

20 January marks a crossroads for mental health care here in NSW. Across the state, 200 trained and practising psychiatrists…

NSW Face Public Mental Health Crisis as Nearly 200 Psychiatrists Resign

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