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Avani Dias

Verified
Sydney, Western Visayas
As seen in: Four Corners, MSN Australia, AM (Podcast), ABC 7.30, ABC News, ABC News (Australia), Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), Hack, Triple j, Flipboard, Radio New Zealand (RNZ) and
Reporter @4Corners, former South Asia Bureau Chief for @abcnews. Views are my own
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'Cost is significant': NSW government defends inaction on broken mental health system

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By Avani Dias Verified, Amy Donaldson Verified, Maddy King
| ABC News (Australia) Verified
"I actually wasn't surprised." That was NSW mental health minister Rose Jackson's response to our Four Corners story exposing the state of the system she oversees. We uncovered that people are waiting up to four days for critical mental health treatment in one of the country's busiest emergency departments. Doctors revealed they feel pressured by higher ups to discharge patients too soon.
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The families seeing their loved ones abandoned by a mental health system in crisis

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By Avani Dias Verified, Amy Donaldson Verified, Maddy King
| ABC News (Australia) Verified
Desperate and grieving families say they're living with the consequences of the crisis in New South Wales' public mental health system. Their loved ones are part of a group the system does not adequately care for, known as "the missing middle" — people with complex mental health needs who are too unwell for a GP, but not sick enough to be admitted to hospital.
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Mental health services plague Australia's largest state

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By Avani Dias Verified
| AM (Podcast)
Four days - that's how long a mental health patient at one of the country's busiest emergency departments waited for treatment, according to figures seen by Four Corners. And doctors have revealed they felt pressured to discharge people in severe mental health crisis before they're ready. Featured: Teaghanne Sarina, mental health nurse Dr Anu Kataria, psychiatrist Dr Suzy Goodison, former psychiatrist, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Professor Gordon Parker, psychiatrist Isabella Higgins: Four days.
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