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.
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.
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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.
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.