30 Aug 2021

Understaffing plagues Wellington mental health triage service

From Morning Report, 8:41 am on 30 August 2021

Wellington's mental health triage system is 30 percent under-staffed and desperately seeking workers.

Clinicians say the lack of staff is pushing out wait times for patients and making some harder to treat.

Hamish Cardwell filed this report.

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