A SINGLE-page Psychological Well being Workforce Technique of “obscure statements” was not sufficient to deal with Canberra’s longstanding scarcity of psychological well being employees, says Ed Cocks. 

Liberal MLA Ed Cocks.  Picture: Nick General

The opposition spokesman for psychological well being stated the technique, launched on September 21, comprised lower than 400 phrases and “obscure statements such because the dot-points ‘attraction, recruitment and retention’”.

By comparability, he stated the NSW Strategic Framework and Workforce Plan for Psychological Well being is 146 pages lengthy and offered the overarching framework for NSW Well being motion in psychological well being for the subsequent 5 years.

“After 20 years of recognised want within the ACT, the ACT Labor Greens authorities’s single, A4 web page plan is simply not adequate,” Cocks stated.

“Ensuring we’ve got an satisfactory and appropriately expert workforce should be the primary precedence for Canberra’s psychological well being system.

“Proper now, too many Canberrans don’t have the helps they want, can’t get entry to psychological companies, and are being omitted within the chilly.”

 

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