The draft national mental health roadmap, which outlines how $2.2 billion in mental health funding should be spent, is too vague and lacking details, critics say.
The plan, which is open for public comment, puts a greater emphasis on early intervention and aims to increase access to mental health services for refugees. But it gives little explanation of how this will be done, Professor Louise Newman, psychiatrist and chair of Detention Health Advisory Group for the department of immigration, told Psychiatry Update.
She was pleased the document mentioned increasing services to refugees but said the issue was too complex to be dealt with by such simple and vague goals.
“Just saying ‘increase services for a particular group’ is fine but how are they...
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