10 - 16 February 2025 - media summary for the week
- Feb 19, 2025
- 2 min read
10 February 2025
Psychiatrists’ walkout: is NSW just the first domino to fall? - HealthEd
NSW MPs Psych out the FedsDaily Telegraph
11 February 2025
'The NSW Government needs to realise people will die': Psychiatry registrar quits for Victoria* from AusDoc
Mamamia Podcast
Timestamp 22:15-29:09
12 February 2025
We refuse to stay silent while our mental health system crumbles. NSW Nursing and Midwives Association
With Cumberland Hospital nursing colleagues
NSW Health could save $35m a year by giving psychiatrists a 25% pay rise, modelling suggests
'It’s a war zone’: why Dr Nithya Reddy is quitting the health system just months from end of training
Tactical blunder? Professor Ian Hickie on the mass psychiatrist resignations AusDoc
13 February 2025
‘Severe and enduring crisis’: senior psychiatrists call for urgent NSW mental health fix
Without doctors, hospital patients left in locked wards
There's also plenty of material on the @nswpsychiatrycrisis Instagram page. There are a few videos of the crisis being debated by NSW Parliamentarians yesterday.
14 February 2025
Senior psychiatrists pen open letter to avert mental health crisis
ABC Radio National AM
Public Interest Debate Publication - has been captured on Hansard
Videos of speeches on @nswpsychiatrycrisis instagram page
NSW Labor accused of trying to ‘redesign’ a mental health system with no psychiatrists
NSW relying on locums amid psychiatrists' pay dispute
With Elizabeth Moore, RANZCP President
MP 'blocked' in Parliament from speaking on psychiatry crisis
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Resignations puts private mental health care in play
15 February 2025
ABC Sydney Saturday Breakfast with Dom Knight
Timestamp 1:14:39- 1:21:30 featuring Professor Ian Hickie
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