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Slow crisis in the emergency department: bed block and human rights
SAGE Psychology & Psychiatry
English - February 11, 2019 10:55 - 10 minutes - 9.14 MB - ★★★★ - 22 ratingsSocial Sciences Science Society & Culture publications psychologypsychiatry sage Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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The February 2019 podcast is an interview with Professor Tarun Bastiampillai, Professor of Psychiatry at the College of Medicine and Public Health at Flinders University in Adelaide. Professor Bastiampillai is co-author of the Australasian Psychiatry article “Widespread emergency department access block: a human rights issue in Australia?”, which analyses the factors underlying the different standards applied to emergency psychiatric and emergency health care in emergency departments. The article advocates increasing Australia’s internationally low number of inpatient mental health beds per capita by applying the same expected quality frameworks to the mental health service as the rest of medicine.