Documents also show plans to maintain services without bed closures and rely on ‘bolstered’ allied healthcare staff and nurses
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More than half of the staff psychiatrists in the Sydney Local Health District – which includes two major psychiatry centres at Royal Prince Alfred and Concord hospitals – have resigned, leaked documents show.
Guardian Australia has seen the district’s work health safety “risk assessment tool” dated 17 January, which states in a “background/context” section that the “resignation of more than 50% of psychiatry staff specialists employed in SLHD may impact the district’s ability to provide safe, high quality, timely, appropriate, consistent and comprehensive health services for mental health consumers”.
