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Thousands of Victorians with severe mental illness spent more than eight hours waiting in emergency departments before being admitted to a psychiatric care bed.
Mental Health Minister James Merlino conceded on Tuesday the wait times were ânot good enough and Victorians deserve betterâ as new data showed the government had failed to meet its target of admitting 80 per cent of mental health patients within eight hours for the past six years.
âNot good enoughâ: Mental Health Minister James Merlino, pictured with the Premier, on the latest data.
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âLike many parts of our current mental health system, these wait times are completely unacceptable to me and only further illustrate the need for our broken mental health system to be rebuilt from the ground up,â Mr Merlino told
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Residents in the growing suburb of Clyde North will have a new ambulance station for the extra paramedics already hard at work providing high quality care, thanks to the Andrews Labor Government.
Parliamentary Secretary for Health Steve McGhie and Member for Bass Jordan Crugnale today announced that, after an extensive search, land for the Clyde North Ambulance Station has been secured at 69 Matterhorn Drive, Clyde North.
Planning for a state-of-the-art designed and equipped facility has begun and is expected to be completed by the end of 2022. The station builds on the areas new Peak Period Unit already delivered by the Labor Government – providing an additional eight paramedics and operating seven days a week.
By Cam Lucadou-Wells
No new community transmission of Covid-19 has been detected in the two days since a Noble Park man working in hotel quarantine tested positive, the State Government has announced.
Sixteen of 17 close contacts of the 26-year-old who worked at an Australian Open quarantine hotel have tested negative, Premier Daniel Andrews said on 5 February.
The one remaining contact’s results were pending.
The close contacts remain in isolation for 14 days – the incubation period of the virus.
Victoria’s Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton said the man was infected with the UK strain of the virus.
Though still unsure of how the infection occurred, Professor Sutton was confident it was caught from one of four tennis-hotel residents with the same strain, rather than from the community.