September 12, 2026 — 5:00am

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Nineteen of Victoria’s 21 adult mental health and wellbeing services are failing to meet their target for admitting acutely mentally unwell Victorians to a bed within eight hours.

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, and most facilities are using seclusion and restraints far more often than they are supposed to.

Medical groups…

Read the full article at SMH.COM.AU