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iTWire Tuesday, 11 May 2021 11:20 Black Dog Institute and SAS optimising mental health hub for frontline workers
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The Black Dog Institute s mental health platform tailored to frontline healthcare workers - TEN - was built with the analytical power of SAS and has reached 33,000 Australian healthcare professionals. However, its continued funding now rests on the result of the 2021-22 federal budget.
COVID-19 has hit everyone hard, and frontline healthcare workers are no exception, with relentless demands and pressures affecting their mental wellbeing in their professional and personal life. As part of its $74 million package to support the mental and health and wellbeing of all Australians, the Commonwealth Department of Health funded the Black Dog Institute to develop an online support platform tailored to these workers. This was released as The Essential Network, or TEN.
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Doctors fear Melbourne hospitals will have no choice but to continue turning away ambulances at the door this summer because of a perfect storm of post-lockdown problems placing emergency departments under critical levels of strain.
Ambulance Victoria declared a code red with more than 2000 calls in hot weather on Monday evening, a 20 per cent increase on a regular day, which left public and private hospitals swamped with patients and caused longer waiting times for those not suffering life-threatening illness.
The Australasian College of Emergency Medicine warns departments are operating at capacity.
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Danny Hill, secretary of the Victorian Ambulance Union, said hot temperatures often led people to a crisis point with their ailments – exacerbated by this year s coronavirus restrictions that discouraged Victorians from regular medical check-ups.