Last night’s ABC Four Corners report Emergency: The Long Wait for Help highlighted the damaging impacts that excessive emergency department (ED) waiting times are having on patients presenting with mental health-related issues and the staff caring for them.
A major new report examining Australia’s mental healthcare crisis has provided a comprehensive set of recommendations and reforms to help improve care for members of the community seeking mental health support, and address unsustainable pressures on hospital emergency departments (EDs).
ACEM (through the Clinical Support Program) has been working with Papua New Guinean emergency care colleagues at ANGAU Memorial Provincial Hospital to support the development and implementation of an evidence-based model of care.