27 January - 2 February 2025 - media summary for the week
- Feb 19, 2025
- 2 min read
27 January 2025
Psychiatrist resignations - canary in the coalmine for NSW
Timestamp 01:43
ABC Sydney
Timestamp @ 1:28:30. Norman Swan discusses feedback from a "senior public psychiatrist" regarding the ABC Health Report on 25 January.
28 January 2025
Each hour injures, the last one kills- Editorial published in Australasian Psychiatry.
Looi JC, Robinson N, Robson SJ. Australasian Psychiatry. 2025;0(0). doi:10.1177/10398562251316408
A complete disaster’: Psychiatry resignations felt by GPs
My daughter was involuntarily admitted to a psych ward in NSW. I saw the crisis first-hand
29 January 2025
Emergency department workers in NSW brace for fallout, increased demand in wake of psychiatrist resignations
ABC News Breakfast
Mentions on news bulletins @ timestamp 26:45 and 1:26:50
30 January 2025
ABC Sydney Breakfast
Australian Psychological Society CEO @ timestamp 1:05:22
The news today? Your AusDoc update on the psych crisis, more fast-track AHPRA rego and tapeworm
Australia: Mass resignation of psychiatrists a symptom of broader mental health crisis
31 January 2025
Carer Online Survey: Carer Experience of Psychiatrist Crisis
Mental health and domestic violence crises collide in NSW as psychiatrists resign
Featuring Dr Kathryn Drew
Psychiatric patients wait up to 88 hours in emergency in New South Wales, amid fears of system collapse
Featuring Dr Pramudie Gunaratne, Dr Jackie Huber, Assoc Prof. Ian Hickie
Trainees should be released from this mental health mess
'Frightening' wait times for psychiatric patients
John Hunter Hospital apologises after leaked email ridicules junior doctors
1-2 January 2025
The Health Report 1/02/2025
Timestamp 6:08
NSW Health ‘threw fuel on the fire’ of psychiatrists dispute
Featuring Chris Ryan
Expect access to a specialist doctor if you need one? Don’t be so sure
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