Experts call for action, not talk, on mental health road map
MENTAL health advocates say they will reject the federal government's 10-year road map for the sector unless there are attainable goals in the plan.
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Patrick McGorry
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McGorry stands firm on ‘flimsy’ accusations
PROFESSOR Patrick McGorry has issued a staunch defence of his youth mental health work after a state Labor MP publicly accused him of promoting “flimsy” methods to diagnose young people at risk of psychosis.
Extended detention detrimental to asylum seekers’ mental health: McGorry
A LEADING mental health expert says adding to the mental health burden of asylum seekers through extended detention is unsatisfactory.
Outrage over proposed WA law on children's right to be sterilised
MENTAL health experts have expressed concern at draft legislation being considered in WA that could give children with mental illness as young as 12 the right to decide if they want to be sterilised or receive electroconvulsive therapy [ECT].
McGorry demands Govt take immediate action on mental health
AUSTRALIAN of the Year Professor Patrick McGorry has laid down the gauntlet for the new Minister for Mental Health, saying the “time for talk” is over. Speaking on the ABC’s Lateline program last night, Professor McGorry said although there had been “positive interactions” with Minister Mark Butler who took office in September, government delays in implementing mental health reform were “inexcusable”. Professor McGorry called on Prime Minister Julia Gillard to give Mr Butler her strong support to tackle the “incredible” scale of the problem. “The time for talk was over some time ago, and what we ...
Australians of the Year call for plain packaging of tobacco
THE country’s six medical Australians of the Year have issued a united call to all political parties to support the plain packaging of tobacco products. The move – proposed as part of the Labor Government’s National Preventative Health Strategy – has been aggressively opposed by the tobacco industry. It has been reported that the proposal has prompted the tobacco industry to launch an anti-Labor advertising campaign ahead of the Federal Election. Professors Peter Doherty (Australian of the Year 1997), Sir Gustav Nossal (2000), Fiona Stanley (2003), Fiona Wood (2005), Ian Frazer (2006) and Patrick McGorry (2010) ...
McGorry mental health plan gains momentum
GPs are getting behind the latest plea for action on mental health, backing a new five-point plan from Australian of the Year Professor Patrick McGorry. Speaking at the National Press Club last week, Professor McGorry called on the Federal Government to end the “medical apartheid” between mental and physical health and set a national target for suicide prevention. He outlined a plan to focus on leadership, funding, access, skills and standards.GPs across Australia welcomed the advocacy, provided the plan would recognise the key role of general practice. Brisbane GP Dr Andrew Gunn, a senior lecturer in ...
Gillard urged to make mental health a priority
MENTAL health advocates are calling on the new Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, to pick up the slack and push mental health up the national agenda. The political reshuffle came at the end of a turbulent week for mental health, with the former Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, facing a grilling in Parliament over the resignation of key advisor Professor John Mendoza as chair of the National Advisory Council on Mental Health. Last Thursday morning, key mental health leaders presented the Prime Minister with a new blueprint for mental health, backed by more than 60 organisations, and a petition ...
Youth mental health care $200m short
THE Federal Government needs to invest $200 million in new youth mental health services as a matter of priority, rather than wait for its health reform blueprint to be finalised, a mental health expert has claimed. Australian of the Year Professor Patrick McGorry, from the Centre for Youth Mental Health at the University of Melbourne, has called for $100 million to be ploughed into tripling the number of headspace centres, from 30 up to 90. The youth mental health centres currently draw together GP, mental health, drug and alcohol services and employment services in one ...