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Joel Magarey

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Report urged independent checks on vulnerable NDIS clients

The authors of a report given to state governments 17 months ago suggesting they expand community visitor checks on vulnerable people under the NDIS umbrella say the “disgusting and degrading” death of Ann-Marie Smith was the sort of scenario they were worried about.

Netted, drugged, locked away: the damning face of child mental health in SA

South Australian children experiencing mental crises are being tied down under nets, locked up in seclusion at extreme rates and forcibly injected with sedating drugs, prompting warnings youngsters are suffering lasting harm from coercive health-system practices.

SA Health insists an email from a financial manager on staff vacancies doesn't represent its policy.

Leaked email: SA Health congratulates staff on failing to fill mental health vacancies

An SA Health manager has congratulated colleagues on failing to fill vacant positions in a southern area mental health service which has been described as being in crisis due to staff shortages.

SA's mental health outcomes 'worst in nation': new data

South Australia’s state-run mental health services have been producing the nation’s worst clinical outcomes, discharging patients who have not improved in up to 55 per cent of cases, newly released data show.

'Dysfunctional', 'unsafe': Review damns SA's community mental health services

South Australia’s adult community mental health services are “extremely dysfunctional”, to the point of being “unsafe” for patients and staff, SA Health clinicians have told a formal review.