Abstract
Response to:
Rosen A, Rock D and Salvador-Carulla L (2020) The interpretation of beds: More bedtime stories, or maybe they’re dreaming? Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 54: 1154–1156.
Whiteford H and Diminic S (2020) The National Mental Health Service Planning Framework: Where has it come from and what is its future? Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 54: 1152–1153.
To the Editor
Australia has ‘de-hospitalised’ by closing psychiatric hospitals without commissioning sufficient new beds, and in a recent article we argued that de-hospitalisation left the nation with fewer beds per capita than most high-income countries...
Rosen A, Rock D and Salvador-Carulla L (2020) The interpretation of beds: More bedtime stories, or maybe they’re dreaming? Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 54: 1154–1156.
Whiteford H and Diminic S (2020) The National Mental Health Service Planning Framework: Where has it come from and what is its future? Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 54: 1152–1153.
To the Editor
Australia has ‘de-hospitalised’ by closing psychiatric hospitals without commissioning sufficient new beds, and in a recent article we argued that de-hospitalisation left the nation with fewer beds per capita than most high-income countries...
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 1208-1209 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| Journal | Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue number | 12 |
| Early online date | 12 Jan 2021 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Dec 2021 |
Keywords
- Mental health care
- de-hospitalisation
- health policy
