5 Mar 2020

Stress on DHB mental health services endemic across the country

From Lately, 10:20 pm on 5 March 2020

The Ombudsman has called on the Waikato DHB to address overcrowding and the use of seclusion and physical restraints at its mental health unit.

Four reports by Peter Boshier have been tabled in Parliament today after unannounced inspections in September last year.

Karyn asks Shaun Robinson from the Mental Health Foundation about overcrowding and the use of seclusion and physical restraints in mental health services around New Zealand.

Mental Health Foundation chief executive Shaun Robinson

Photo: RNZ / Rebekah Parsons-King