Three people have taken their own lives inside a locked mental health unit at The Prince Charles Hospital in the past 16 months, prompting a major review.
Three people have taken their own lives inside a locked mental health unit at The Prince Charles Hospital in the past 16 months, triggering an independent review.
"Families and carers often express significant relief having gotten someone to hospital, that's often a very difficult thing to do to actually get someone admitted," chief executive Rachel Green said. That resulted in an increase in nursing staff and people with lived experience being employed at the mental health unit.
"I think there are lots of hypotheses around about what is driving the burden of mental disease and acute mental illness within our communities. We're not just seeing that … in Metro North, we're seeing this across the country and we're also seeing this internationally."She called for more research into the root causes but cited the increased social isolation during the pandemic as a potential contributor and reduced access to general practitioners.
Professor Emmerson, a member of the Queensland Mental Health Commission advisory council, said the state was about 3000 mental health staff and 370 beds short of what was needed in the public sector.To celebrate the last day of Chinese New Year, Florence Le's family picked her up from the mental health facility she was staying. Two days later, the mother and piano teacher died by suicide inside Sydney's Liverpool Hospital.
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