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Friday, August 23

Leaked SA Health review: Staff shortages, "sub-standard" systems and "fractured relationships"

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.

Psychiatrists at public mental health service declare "no confidence" in management

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.

Community mental health workers in Adelaide's south are managing an overwhelming workload of young patients. Stock photo: Ryan Melaugh / Flickr

Southern Adelaide mental health services 'overloaded' and 'unsafe'

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.