Psychiatrists fear what'll happen to their patients when they close their doors

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Two psychiatrists say they will have no choice but to close their practices when a Hobart private mental health hospital stops operating next month — cutting loose thousands of patients in an already stretched system.

and the government has said other services offered by the St Helen's Private Hospital "will be absorbed by private providers to ensure patients can continue to receive treatment".

The Hobart Clinic is working to transition inpatient and day programs from St Helen's to its centres, and ECT services will continue to be provided through the Hobart Day Surgery, with patients under the care of the Hobart Clinic."The reality is the services in place aren't any extra services that haven't been there yet," she said.

"With closure there comes disruption, but there also comes opportunity, so this is our chance to be looking at where the most contemporary models of care are, how do we ensure that what we replace it with is actually accessible to more people, and we still need to answer those questions around access around the state."

While they are closing their practices, Dr Rybak and Dr Turnier-Shea said they both wanted to continue working in mental health.

 

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