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Health and legal experts unite for NT’s youth incarceration crisisLeading mental health and medical experts gathered with lawyers, Aboriginal -controlled, and communi...
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SA psychiatrists back GP-led ADHD diagnosis, stress the importance of access to specialist careSouth Australian psychiatrists say enabling GPs to diagnose attention deficit hyperactivity disorder...
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Psychiatrists welcome WA’s carded play move, urge national action on gambling harmPsychiatrists have welcomed the Western Australian Government’s introduction of mandatory carded pla...
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Psychiatrists warn cohealth closures will leave Victoria’s vulnerable worse-offThe Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) is deeply concerned about the...
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World Mental Health Day: Retain workers to top up the mental health systemOn World Mental Health Day, Tū Te Akaaka Roa, the New Zealand National Committee of the Royal Austra...
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Queensland psychiatrists call for reinstatement of life-saving pill testing servicesThe RANZCP Queensland Branch has expressed ongoing concern about recent legislative changes banning ...
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RANZCP welcomes new defence mental health strategy, calls for ongoing veteran psychiatry trainingA year on since the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide delivered its final report, ps...
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Trauma-Informed Care Essential to South Australia’s Approach to Domestic ViolenceSouth Australia's psychiatrists are calling for trauma-informed practices to be embedded across all ...
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Psychiatrists welcome training boost in Aotearoa New ZealandPsychiatrists say the New Zealand Government has taken positive steps toward growing the availabilit...
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Psychiatrists warn NT Government: Spit hoods and detention cause irreversible harm to youthPsychiatrists say proposed changes to Youth Justice laws, including reinstating spit hoods and remov...
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Tighter restrictions required in medicinal cannabis crackdownPsychiatrists have welcomed new guidance and a tougher approach to medicinal cannabis prescribing pr...
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Health system must support older New Zealanders needing mental health carePsychiatrists say reports of aggressive older psychiatric patients in general hospital wards highli...
