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Submission to the NSW Legislative Council Select Committee on Mental Health: Inquiry into Mental Health Services In NSW..
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Part I - Report
- INTRODUCTION
- PUBLIC MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES IN NSW
- Acute services
- Rural NSW
- Subacute, longer term patients
- Lack of Psychotherapeutic Service Provision
- Supervision
- Children and Adolescents
- Women
- Staffing problems
- Changes in the Medicare Schedule 1996
- Quality Control and Recommendations
- Psychiatric Deaths Committee
- Mental Health Services Occupational Health And Safety Committee
- Consumer Satisfaction Surveys
- More Difficult, Important Issues
- Questions to be answered:
- FORENSIC PSYCHIATRIC SERVICES - INTRODUCTION
- FORENSIC PSYCHIATRIC SERVICES - SECTION 1
- The Scale of the Problem
- Analysis
- Unethical Treatment
- Breach Of Accepted International Conventions
- Breaches Of Nationally And Internationally Accepted Standards For The Treatment Of The Mentally Ill
- In Breach Of The Recommendations Of The Burdekin Report
- Illegalities In New South Wales
- Inadequate Standards Of Treatment Of Mentally Ill Prisoners
- Summary
- Recommendations
- Identification And Diversion Of Mentally Ill Defendants From Court
- Adequate Mental Health Treatment Facilities For Prisoners
- Secure Psychiatric Hospitals (Community Forensic Hospitals)
- Adequate Funding Of Community Mental Health Services
- Statewide Management And Planning Of Psychiatric Services
- A Properly Funded And Staffed NSW State Forensic Psychiatric Service
- Conclusion
- FORENSIC PSYCHIATRIC SERVICES - SECTION 2
- Introduction
- Nurses
- Suggestions
- Forensic Mental Health Services
- Introduction
- Suggestions
- Pod 16
- Suggestions
- Media and Political Involvement
- Suggestions
- Court Liaison
- Suggestions
- Long Bay Prisons Complex
- Suggestions
- Silverwater Prisons Complex
- Suggestions
- Rural Prisons
- Suggestions
- Victoria
- Queensland
- Suggestions
- United Kingdom
- Suggestions
- United States
- Medium Secure Units
- Suggestions
- Forensic Community Services
- Suggestion
- Court Liaison Services
- Allied Professions
- Suggestion
- Teaching and Training
- Suggestions
- Danger of Assaults to Prisoners and Staff
- Suggestions
- UN Directives and Other Inquiries into the Lack of Forensic Mental Health Services in NSW
- Illicit Drugs
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