Research Reports

Researchers took a snapshot of emergency departments in December 2017, with 65 Australian emergency departments reporting on the number of patients present at that time. While only 4% were mental health presentations, they comprised 19% of patients waiting for beds and 28% of those experiencing access block…

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Australia’s health system is failing to meet the needs of people who present to emergency departments with a mental health crisis, according to a new Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM) analysis released today…

This report presents an analysis of the data relating to the usage of mental health and addiction services in New Zealand, and utilises data from the Programme for the Integration of Mental Health Data database from the Ministry of Health. This report also presents data obtained from ACEM’s Prevalence of Mental Health Access Block Study, conducted over a 7-day period in 2017 and in 2018 in EDs across New Zealand (and Australia).