The Greens on mental health

That would be laughable if not almost true, can maybe see why you’re an ‘ex’ nurse then?

How the savings would be spent;

10% on senior managers salaries
30% on trips for managers to other states, to investigate the systems for generating paperwork they have.
10% on meetings to discuss what new paperwork can be generated for clinicians.
20% on a new IT system to manage the new questionnaires, forms, information sheets that will become compulsory for clinicians to use.
10% On new managers to implement and train clinicians in the revised changes.
10% On training managers in accrediting clinicians in their use of the new IT systems/paperwork.
10% on meetings for senior managers to assess the impact of the changes and generate even more new paperwork for clinicians.
9.99% On consultants to review the changes in light of new government guidelines, and to generate new paperwork for clinicians.
0.01% on one new nurse. (Part time.)

Sorry. I’ll try harder next time.

Hey, does this qualify as a rant?

you got ‘public art’ in, so why yes!

otherwise, you made far too much sense for ‘rant’ status. and there weren’t EVEN ANY CAPITALS AND STUFF AND NOT MUCH PUNCTUATION AND SIMPLE GRAMMATICAL ERRORS LIKE…

housebound said :

Only half a day?

I was lucky. But it was packed with people trying to get their certificates for monday, like me.

Jimbocool is right, spend 12% in primary care mental health and the ACT would save a bucketload in crisis/acute health costs now and into the future.

The same applies to maternity care, and general healthcare. Put the funding into primary care through preventative health programs, midwives, and GPs and the hospitals will cost less.

Sounds good – ‘driven by the needs of the consumer’ is where there have been so many problems, given that ental health often presents as just part of an entire package of problems that need addressing in a coordinated manner. Eg, mental health and drug and/or alcohol, mental health and criminal behaviour, mental health and family violence.

Only half a day?

It’s OK, jb, you cannot be held responsible for quoting ‘paradigm’

housebound said :

Oh, and I could add in the $50 million for more GPs in Belconnen Town Centre, when there are already several medical practices in that area, and not enough in the districts.

Hear hear. It’s hard to get a GP anywhere in this town and when I was in the Ginnenderra Medical Centre on Monday, I spent half the day in the waiting room.