Funding fail: Psychiatrists turning desperate patients away
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Funding fail: Psychiatrists turning desperate patients away
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Australian public mental health workers take stopwork action
After participating in limited rolling stopworks for the past three months, public mental health workers in the Australian state of Victoria are due to hold a state-wide stopwork on May 26 over their poor pay and conditions.
They will meet in Melbourne and march to parliament in support of an overdue enterprise bargaining agreement (EBA), having not taken industrial action since 2016.
They are seeking a 4 percent annual increase over the life of a four-year agreement, a one-off immediate pay increase to bring them in line with other health workers, recognition of current skills and qualifications, and other improvements to conditions.
The Feed schizophrenia, “can cause periods where people lose touch with reality.”
“Symptoms of schizophrenia can include. hallucinations, delusions, unusual or disrupted speech, disorganised behaviour, low energy, low motivation, or lack of emotional expression,” the spokesperson said.
“These symptoms cause significant difficulties in various areas of a person’s life, such as in social situations, at work or school, or with daily tasks of living, like shopping.”
Phoebe doesn t agree with the current mental health care that s provided to those with schizophrenia. She also prefers not to use clinical terminology. I want people to not just end up being psych patients , I want them to be more than that and have more in their life .