The chronic shortage of trained staff across New Zealand's mental health services, encompassing difficulties recruiting and retaining frontline clinicians, inadequate bed capacity, and policy debates over workforce expansion to meet growing demand.
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increasing training numbers and staffing levels
Quarter of young people report high levels of psychological distress - reportunderstaffing fuels staff exhaustion and aggression
‘Exhausted’ workers in Palmerston North mental health ward facing risk of assault every dayStacked weekly counts; colour by editorial lean. Stuff and The Spinoff lean centre-left, NZ Herald centre-right, others centre.
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