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‘Genuine life and death’: Emergency departments pushed to the brink by mental health surge

Five years after the state government promised to fix the broken mental health system, data shows more than half of patients are languishing in emergency departments because there are not enough specialist beds to treat them.

Reported by Sydney Morning Herald
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