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EXCLUSIVE: South Australia’s Chief Psychiatrist has intervened in the care given to patients by public mental health services in Adelaide’s south after allegations were referred to him by the Independent Commissioner Against Corruption.
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A leaked external review of public mental health services in Adelaide’s south has uncovered “sub-standard systems”, staffing shortages and poor planning, amid a climate of anger among staff that has been years in the making.
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Psychiatrists at an under-pressure public mental health service in Adelaide’s south declared no confidence in their clinical director earlier this year and told the head of SA Health about their decision, according to correspondence obtained by InDaily.
SA Health managers have asked social workers who haven’t finished training in youth mental health to treat child patients, unions claim, as an apparent workload crisis in southern Adelaide deepens.
