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Date Time Significant investment in mental health welcomed Federal investment of $2.3 billion into mental health and suicide prevention over four years has been welcomed by Queensland Mental Health Commissioner Ivan Frkovic. “This is a significant and necessary investment into mental health reform by the Federal Government that is long overdue,” Mr Frkovic said. “It starts to address the substantial economic cost of up to $70 billion a year for mental ill-health, as estimated by the Productivity Commission Inquiry,” he said. The Commonwealth has confirmed its support in full, in part ...

Mental health need increases amid long waitlists for professional help, sharp rise in emergency presentations Posted 4 updated 4 MarMarch 2021 at 11:27pm Psychiatrists want the government to increase the mental health workforce by 30 per cent in the next five years to cope with demand. ( Print text only Cancel Psychiatrists are urging the Queensland government to fund more mental health positions as they grapple with having just two-thirds of required staff amid a "mental health crisis" that has seen a 90 per cent increase in emergency department presentations. Key points: A Queensland psych...

The Queensland Mental Health Commission is hosting a Brisbane community forum and statewide webinar on 25 February to inform a renewed approach to...

“The evidence is clear that issues associated with personal drug use are best addressed through the health system, not the justice system,” he said. Figures released on Thursday by the Australian Bureau of Statistics ABS showed the number of offenders prosecuted by police in 2019-2020 was the lowest in the past 12 years. ABS Director of Crime and Justice Statistics, William Milne, said there were 374,645 offenders in Australia in 2019-20, a decrease of 5 per cent from the previous year. The QPC report found drug addicts lives would be improved by decriminalisation without increasing the r...

News by Paul Weston Premium Content Subscriber only ONLY now, 12 months on from the first recorded case in Queensland, is the real toll from COVID-19 emerging. Below are the responses to a parliamentary health committee inquiry.   COVID DEATHS One year on since the first recorded COVID death, the figures worldwide have topped more than two million people. Cases have now climbed to 95 million worldwide. Six deaths were recorded at the beginning of the pandemic in Queensland; none since. The state has had 1303 positive COVID-19 cases, of which 23 are cur...