Prior to the election, the then-spokesperson for mental health in the National Party, Matt Doocey, committed to funding 13 additional psychiatry registrar places. Psychiatrists are questioning why this commitment has been left out of today’s budget.
The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists offers our deepest apology to the survivors, their whānau, and all those impacted by the abuses perpetrated at Lake Alice Child and Adolescent Unit by Dr Selwyn Leeks and staff. It is a shameful .
Tuesday, 3 August 2021, 4:10 pm
The Royal Australian and New Zealand
College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) welcomes the New Zealand
Government’s apology for the Dawn Raids.
The Dawn
Raids carried out in the 1970s were a racist targeting of
our Pasifika communities – especially Tongan and Samoan
households.
Dr Francis Agnew, spokesperson for the Tu
Te Akaaka Roa – RANZCP New Zealand National Committee,
said the acknowledgment of the Dawn Raids is important for
the harm the Dawn Raids caused.
‘Now Aotearoa New
Zealand can begin to move forward,’ said Dr Agnew, who was
awarded the MNZM for services to Pacific mental
health.
‘The trauma endured because of these
Friday, 19 February 2021, 12:49 pm
At a time of increasing public interest
and government focus on the reduction of suicide, the Royal
Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP)
taskforce on suicide prevention has released a new position
statement.
The new statement,
,
acknowledges suicide is complex but there is substantial
evidence regarding clinical and social measures which can
help to prevent suicide.
RANZCP President, Associate
Professor John Allan explained that the taskforce has
brought together leading psychiatrists across Australia and
New Zealand in the field of suicide prevention, along with
people with lived experience.
‘Suicide is one of the
most troubling and difficult aspects of the work we do as