In this town, locals say mental health care is ‘better in prison’ than in hospital

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Residents of a regional New South Wales town are calling for better mental health facilities, with some staff warning of a ‘chronic shortage’ of nurses.

Residents and lawyers in a regional New South Wales town say their mental health facility is so inadequate, sufferers have a better chance obtaining consistent treatment in prison.

"At the moment, the magistrate refers the person up to Albury Base Hospital for an assessment," she told The Feed. "He gets one night's care at Albury Hospital and then they toss him, toss him out on the street but he doesn't even make it to Nolan House."Ms Robey told The Feed Mr Love would not have gone to prison if he had received mental health care.Ms Sefton believes prisons are full of people who have been misdiagnosed."Prisons are for crooks, hospitals are for people with mental health problems, but the two are mixed up at the moment.

Mr Holmes said the limited number of beds at Nolan House compounded pressure on staff and the facilities. Founder of headspace and Orygen Executive Director Pat McGorry said staff are routinely silenced in health care systems across Australia."What we see are the human consequences of these failures of the system," he said.In a statement, Albury Wodonga Health - the organisation managing Nolan House and Albury Base Hospital - told The Feed that they have invested heavily in mental health.

 

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Castrations of depot shots is what makes it feel inhumane with no psycho therapy illness awareness. Delusional as charged I have superhuman powers it’s not nurses needed as restrictions of blood flow to the brain sedatives shutdowns the body is a lifetime sentence. medicine

Like government cares, if people kill themselves the problem is solved, if people don't kill themselves they become sociopaths and government recruits them as talent...

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