❓ Minister McGinty provides an update on the $173 million mental health services package, detailing progress on new beds at Graylands and Armadale-Kelmscott hospitals, and a step-down facility at the former Hawthorn Hospital. He highlights the aim to alleviate pressure on emergency departments.
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MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES
Can the minister please update the house on the state government’s $173 million package to improve mental health services in Western Australia? Mr J.A. McGINTY
Can the minister please update the house on the state government’s $173 million package to improve mental health services in Western Australia? Mr J.A. McGINTY
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I am very pleased to be able to advise the house that this morning I went to Graylands Hospital and saw where work had commenced on a very important addition to the mental health facilities in this state. An amount of $5.5 million is being spent to provide an additional 16 beds. Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. Mr J.A. McGINTY : Sorry about that. Several members interjected. Mr J.A. McGINTY : Twelve of those 16 beds will be secure beds built adjacent to Fitzroy House on the Graylands Hospital campus. Those additional 12 secure beds plus the four holding beds will significantly increase the number of beds available and, therefore, reduce the pressure on our emergency departments, where mental health care patients who are acutely unwell are being kept for far too long at the moment. At the same time, the project to add a number of beds to the Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital is reaching completion. That was a $650 000 project, which will bring to 41 the number of mental health beds at the Armadale hospital. I was delighted when the Town of Vincent came to its senses last night and approved the conversion of the former Hawthorn Hospital to a mental health step-down facility. Once people have overcome the acute stage of their illness, they will be able to be accommodated in a home-like environment. The facility expressly excludes people who have a history of violence or criminal behaviour. It will accommodate people recovering from depression, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. I am delighted to be able to say that we will have an extra 16 beds where people can be taken out of acute hospital beds and accommodated in the first step-down facility of its type to be established in this state. It is a temporary facility pending the construction in Joondalup in three years of a permanent step-down facility, which will be matched by a comparable facility in Perth’s southern suburbs. Between Graylands and Armadale hospitals and the Hawthorn Hospital proposal, this year an additional 40 mental health beds will be available to enable two things to occur. First, it will take the pressure of the emergency departments. In discussions that I have had in recent days with emergency department clinicians, they have said that one of the great problems they have to deal with are highly disruptive, acutely unwell mental patients who are presenting in greater numbers in the state’s emergency departments. Their real wish is to be able to treat these people, stabilise them and then get them into secure mental health accommodation. We will see far better mental health care given to people who present in our hospitals with acute mental health conditions. These 40 extra beds will be a tremendous boost but there is more to come. All up, we have received funding through the budget for 108 extra inpatient beds and 420 community-based places in supported accommodation for the mentally ill. They will be rolled out over the next 18 months. We will then have the capacity to properly deliver a service to the mentally ill in this state.
Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: I am very pleased to be able to advise the house that this morning I went to Graylands Hospital and saw where work had commenced on a very important addition to the mental health facilities in this state. An amount of $5.5 million is being spent to provide an additional 16 beds. Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. Mr J.A. McGINTY : Sorry about that. Several members interjected. Mr J.A. McGINTY : Twelve of those 16 beds will be secure beds built adjacent to Fitzroy House on the Graylands Hospital campus. Those additional 12 secure beds plus the four holding beds will significantly increase the number of beds available and, therefore, reduce the pressure on our emergency departments, where mental health care patients who are acutely unwell are being kept for far too long at the moment. At the same time, the project to add a number of beds to the Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital is reaching completion. That was a $650 000 project, which will bring to 41 the number of mental health beds at the Armadale hospital. I was delighted when the Town of Vincent came to its senses last night and approved the conversion of the former Hawthorn Hospital to a mental health step-down facility. Once people have overcome the acute stage of their illness, they will be able to be accommodated in a home-like environment. The facility expressly excludes people who have a history of violence or criminal behaviour. It will accommodate people recovering from depression, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. I am delighted to be able to say that we will have an extra 16 beds where people can be taken out of acute hospital beds and accommodated in the first step-down facility of its type to be established in this state. It is a temporary facility pending the construction in Joondalup in three years of a permanent step-down facility, which will be matched by a comparable facility in Perth’s southern suburbs. Between Graylands and Armadale hospitals and the Hawthorn Hospital proposal, this year an additional 40 mental health beds will be available to enable two things to occur. First, it will take the pressure of the emergency departments. In discussions that I have had in recent days with emergency department clinicians, they have said that one of the great problems they have to deal with are highly disruptive, acutely unwell mental patients who are presenting in greater numbers in the state’s emergency departments. Their real wish is to be able to treat these people, stabilise them and then get them into secure mental health accommodation. We will see far better mental health care given to people who present in our hospitals with acute mental health conditions. These 40 extra beds will be a tremendous boost but there is more to come. All up, we have received funding through the budget for 108 extra inpatient beds and 420 community-based places in supported accommodation for the mentally ill. They will be rolled out over the next 18 months. We will then have the capacity to properly deliver a service to the mentally ill in this state.
I am very pleased to be able to advise the house that this morning I went to Graylands Hospital and saw where work had commenced on a very important addition to the mental health facilities in this state. An amount of $5.5 million is being spent to provide an additional 16 beds. Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. Mr J.A. McGINTY : Sorry about that. Several members interjected. Mr J.A. McGINTY : Twelve of those 16 beds will be secure beds built adjacent to Fitzroy House on the Graylands Hospital campus. Those additional 12 secure beds plus the four holding beds will significantly increase the number of beds available and, therefore, reduce the pressure on our emergency departments, where mental health care patients who are acutely unwell are being kept for far too long at the moment. At the same time, the project to add a number of beds to the Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital is reaching completion. That was a $650 000 project, which will bring to 41 the number of mental health beds at the Armadale hospital. I was delighted when the Town of Vincent came to its senses last night and approved the conversion of the former Hawthorn Hospital to a mental health step-down facility. Once people have overcome the acute stage of their illness, they will be able to be accommodated in a home-like environment. The facility expressly excludes people who have a history of violence or criminal behaviour. It will accommodate people recovering from depression, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. I am delighted to be able to say that we will have an extra 16 beds where people can be taken out of acute hospital beds and accommodated in the first step-down facility of its type to be established in this state. It is a temporary facility pending the construction in Joondalup in three years of a permanent step-down facility, which will be matched by a comparable facility in Perth’s southern suburbs. Between Graylands and Armadale hospitals and the Hawthorn Hospital proposal, this year an additional 40 mental health beds will be available to enable two things to occur. First, it will take the pressure of the emergency departments. In discussions that I have had in recent days with emergency department clinicians, they have said that one of the great problems they have to deal with are highly disruptive, acutely unwell mental patients who are presenting in greater numbers in the state’s emergency departments. Their real wish is to be able to treat these people, stabilise them and then get them into secure mental health accommodation. We will see far better mental health care given to people who present in our hospitals with acute mental health conditions. These 40 extra beds will be a tremendous boost but there is more to come. All up, we have received funding through the budget for 108 extra inpatient beds and 420 community-based places in supported accommodation for the mentally ill. They will be rolled out over the next 18 months. We will then have the capacity to properly deliver a service to the mentally ill in this state.
Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. Mr J.A. McGINTY : Sorry about that. Several members interjected. Mr J.A. McGINTY : Twelve of those 16 beds will be secure beds built adjacent to Fitzroy House on the Graylands Hospital campus. Those additional 12 secure beds plus the four holding beds will significantly increase the number of beds available and, therefore, reduce the pressure on our emergency departments, where mental health care patients who are acutely unwell are being kept for far too long at the moment. At the same time, the project to add a number of beds to the Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital is reaching completion. That was a $650 000 project, which will bring to 41 the number of mental health beds at the Armadale hospital. I was delighted when the Town of Vincent came to its senses last night and approved the conversion of the former Hawthorn Hospital to a mental health step-down facility. Once people have overcome the acute stage of their illness, they will be able to be accommodated in a home-like environment. The facility expressly excludes people who have a history of violence or criminal behaviour. It will accommodate people recovering from depression, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. I am delighted to be able to say that we will have an extra 16 beds where people can be taken out of acute hospital beds and accommodated in the first step-down facility of its type to be established in this state. It is a temporary facility pending the construction in Joondalup in three years of a permanent step-down facility, which will be matched by a comparable facility in Perth’s southern suburbs. Between Graylands and Armadale hospitals and the Hawthorn Hospital proposal, this year an additional 40 mental health beds will be available to enable two things to occur. First, it will take the pressure of the emergency departments. In discussions that I have had in recent days with emergency department clinicians, they have said that one of the great problems they have to deal with are highly disruptive, acutely unwell mental patients who are presenting in greater numbers in the state’s emergency departments. Their real wish is to be able to treat these people, stabilise them and then get them into secure mental health accommodation. We will see far better mental health care given to people who present in our hospitals with acute mental health conditions. These 40 extra beds will be a tremendous boost but there is more to come. All up, we have received funding through the budget for 108 extra inpatient beds and 420 community-based places in supported accommodation for the mentally ill. They will be rolled out over the next 18 months. We will then have the capacity to properly deliver a service to the mentally ill in this state.
Mr J.A. McGINTY : Sorry about that. Several members interjected. Mr J.A. McGINTY : Twelve of those 16 beds will be secure beds built adjacent to Fitzroy House on the Graylands Hospital campus. Those additional 12 secure beds plus the four holding beds will significantly increase the number of beds available and, therefore, reduce the pressure on our emergency departments, where mental health care patients who are acutely unwell are being kept for far too long at the moment. At the same time, the project to add a number of beds to the Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital is reaching completion. That was a $650 000 project, which will bring to 41 the number of mental health beds at the Armadale hospital. I was delighted when the Town of Vincent came to its senses last night and approved the conversion of the former Hawthorn Hospital to a mental health step-down facility. Once people have overcome the acute stage of their illness, they will be able to be accommodated in a home-like environment. The facility expressly excludes people who have a history of violence or criminal behaviour. It will accommodate people recovering from depression, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. I am delighted to be able to say that we will have an extra 16 beds where people can be taken out of acute hospital beds and accommodated in the first step-down facility of its type to be established in this state. It is a temporary facility pending the construction in Joondalup in three years of a permanent step-down facility, which will be matched by a comparable facility in Perth’s southern suburbs. Between Graylands and Armadale hospitals and the Hawthorn Hospital proposal, this year an additional 40 mental health beds will be available to enable two things to occur. First, it will take the pressure of the emergency departments. In discussions that I have had in recent days with emergency department clinicians, they have said that one of the great problems they have to deal with are highly disruptive, acutely unwell mental patients who are presenting in greater numbers in the state’s emergency departments. Their real wish is to be able to treat these people, stabilise them and then get them into secure mental health accommodation. We will see far better mental health care given to people who present in our hospitals with acute mental health conditions. These 40 extra beds will be a tremendous boost but there is more to come. All up, we have received funding through the budget for 108 extra inpatient beds and 420 community-based places in supported accommodation for the mentally ill. They will be rolled out over the next 18 months. We will then have the capacity to properly deliver a service to the mentally ill in this state.
Several members interjected. Mr J.A. McGINTY : Twelve of those 16 beds will be secure beds built adjacent to Fitzroy House on the Graylands Hospital campus. Those additional 12 secure beds plus the four holding beds will significantly increase the number of beds available and, therefore, reduce the pressure on our emergency departments, where mental health care patients who are acutely unwell are being kept for far too long at the moment. At the same time, the project to add a number of beds to the Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital is reaching completion. That was a $650 000 project, which will bring to 41 the number of mental health beds at the Armadale hospital. I was delighted when the Town of Vincent came to its senses last night and approved the conversion of the former Hawthorn Hospital to a mental health step-down facility. Once people have overcome the acute stage of their illness, they will be able to be accommodated in a home-like environment. The facility expressly excludes people who have a history of violence or criminal behaviour. It will accommodate people recovering from depression, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. I am delighted to be able to say that we will have an extra 16 beds where people can be taken out of acute hospital beds and accommodated in the first step-down facility of its type to be established in this state. It is a temporary facility pending the construction in Joondalup in three years of a permanent step-down facility, which will be matched by a comparable facility in Perth’s southern suburbs. Between Graylands and Armadale hospitals and the Hawthorn Hospital proposal, this year an additional 40 mental health beds will be available to enable two things to occur. First, it will take the pressure of the emergency departments. In discussions that I have had in recent days with emergency department clinicians, they have said that one of the great problems they have to deal with are highly disruptive, acutely unwell mental patients who are presenting in greater numbers in the state’s emergency departments. Their real wish is to be able to treat these people, stabilise them and then get them into secure mental health accommodation. We will see far better mental health care given to people who present in our hospitals with acute mental health conditions. These 40 extra beds will be a tremendous boost but there is more to come. All up, we have received funding through the budget for 108 extra inpatient beds and 420 community-based places in supported accommodation for the mentally ill. They will be rolled out over the next 18 months. We will then have the capacity to properly deliver a service to the mentally ill in this state.
Mr J.A. McGINTY : Twelve of those 16 beds will be secure beds built adjacent to Fitzroy House on the Graylands Hospital campus. Those additional 12 secure beds plus the four holding beds will significantly increase the number of beds available and, therefore, reduce the pressure on our emergency departments, where mental health care patients who are acutely unwell are being kept for far too long at the moment. At the same time, the project to add a number of beds to the Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital is reaching completion. That was a $650 000 project, which will bring to 41 the number of mental health beds at the Armadale hospital. I was delighted when the Town of Vincent came to its senses last night and approved the conversion of the former Hawthorn Hospital to a mental health step-down facility. Once people have overcome the acute stage of their illness, they will be able to be accommodated in a home-like environment. The facility expressly excludes people who have a history of violence or criminal behaviour. It will accommodate people recovering from depression, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. I am delighted to be able to say that we will have an extra 16 beds where people can be taken out of acute hospital beds and accommodated in the first step-down facility of its type to be established in this state. It is a temporary facility pending the construction in Joondalup in three years of a permanent step-down facility, which will be matched by a comparable facility in Perth’s southern suburbs. Between Graylands and Armadale hospitals and the Hawthorn Hospital proposal, this year an additional 40 mental health beds will be available to enable two things to occur. First, it will take the pressure of the emergency departments. In discussions that I have had in recent days with emergency department clinicians, they have said that one of the great problems they have to deal with are highly disruptive, acutely unwell mental patients who are presenting in greater numbers in the state’s emergency departments. Their real wish is to be able to treat these people, stabilise them and then get them into secure mental health accommodation. We will see far better mental health care given to people who present in our hospitals with acute mental health conditions. These 40 extra beds will be a tremendous boost but there is more to come. All up, we have received funding through the budget for 108 extra inpatient beds and 420 community-based places in supported accommodation for the mentally ill. They will be rolled out over the next 18 months. We will then have the capacity to properly deliver a service to the mentally ill in this state.
At the same time, the project to add a number of beds to the Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital is reaching completion. That was a $650 000 project, which will bring to 41 the number of mental health beds at the Armadale hospital. I was delighted when the Town of Vincent came to its senses last night and approved the conversion of the former Hawthorn Hospital to a mental health step-down facility. Once people have overcome the acute stage of their illness, they will be able to be accommodated in a home-like environment. The facility expressly excludes people who have a history of violence or criminal behaviour. It will accommodate people recovering from depression, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. I am delighted to be able to say that we will have an extra 16 beds where people can be taken out of acute hospital beds and accommodated in the first step-down facility of its type to be established in this state. It is a temporary facility pending the construction in Joondalup in three years of a permanent step-down facility, which will be matched by a comparable facility in Perth’s southern suburbs. Between Graylands and Armadale hospitals and the Hawthorn Hospital proposal, this year an additional 40 mental health beds will be available to enable two things to occur. First, it will take the pressure of the emergency departments. In discussions that I have had in recent days with emergency department clinicians, they have said that one of the great problems they have to deal with are highly disruptive, acutely unwell mental patients who are presenting in greater numbers in the state’s emergency departments. Their real wish is to be able to treat these people, stabilise them and then get them into secure mental health accommodation. We will see far better mental health care given to people who present in our hospitals with acute mental health conditions. These 40 extra beds will be a tremendous boost but there is more to come. All up, we have received funding through the budget for 108 extra inpatient beds and 420 community-based places in supported accommodation for the mentally ill. They will be rolled out over the next 18 months. We will then have the capacity to properly deliver a service to the mentally ill in this state.
Between Graylands and Armadale hospitals and the Hawthorn Hospital proposal, this year an additional 40 mental health beds will be available to enable two things to occur. First, it will take the pressure of the emergency departments. In discussions that I have had in recent days with emergency department clinicians, they have said that one of the great problems they have to deal with are highly disruptive, acutely unwell mental patients who are presenting in greater numbers in the state’s emergency departments. Their real wish is to be able to treat these people, stabilise them and then get them into secure mental health accommodation. We will see far better mental health care given to people who present in our hospitals with acute mental health conditions. These 40 extra beds will be a tremendous boost but there is more to come. All up, we have received funding through the budget for 108 extra inpatient beds and 420 community-based places in supported accommodation for the mentally ill. They will be rolled out over the next 18 months. We will then have the capacity to properly deliver a service to the mentally ill in this state.
Mr J.A. McGINTY replied: I am very pleased to be able to advise the house that this morning I went to Graylands Hospital and saw where work had commenced on a very important addition to the mental health facilities in this state. An amount of $5.5 million is being spent to provide an additional 16 beds. Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. Mr J.A. McGINTY : Sorry about that. Several members interjected. Mr J.A. McGINTY : Twelve of those 16 beds will be secure beds built adjacent to Fitzroy House on the Graylands Hospital campus. Those additional 12 secure beds plus the four holding beds will significantly increase the number of beds available and, therefore, reduce the pressure on our emergency departments, where mental health care patients who are acutely unwell are being kept for far too long at the moment. At the same time, the project to add a number of beds to the Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital is reaching completion. That was a $650 000 project, which will bring to 41 the number of mental health beds at the Armadale hospital. I was delighted when the Town of Vincent came to its senses last night and approved the conversion of the former Hawthorn Hospital to a mental health step-down facility. Once people have overcome the acute stage of their illness, they will be able to be accommodated in a home-like environment. The facility expressly excludes people who have a history of violence or criminal behaviour. It will accommodate people recovering from depression, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. I am delighted to be able to say that we will have an extra 16 beds where people can be taken out of acute hospital beds and accommodated in the first step-down facility of its type to be established in this state. It is a temporary facility pending the construction in Joondalup in three years of a permanent step-down facility, which will be matched by a comparable facility in Perth’s southern suburbs. Between Graylands and Armadale hospitals and the Hawthorn Hospital proposal, this year an additional 40 mental health beds will be available to enable two things to occur. First, it will take the pressure of the emergency departments. In discussions that I have had in recent days with emergency department clinicians, they have said that one of the great problems they have to deal with are highly disruptive, acutely unwell mental patients who are presenting in greater numbers in the state’s emergency departments. Their real wish is to be able to treat these people, stabilise them and then get them into secure mental health accommodation. We will see far better mental health care given to people who present in our hospitals with acute mental health conditions. These 40 extra beds will be a tremendous boost but there is more to come. All up, we have received funding through the budget for 108 extra inpatient beds and 420 community-based places in supported accommodation for the mentally ill. They will be rolled out over the next 18 months. We will then have the capacity to properly deliver a service to the mentally ill in this state.
I am very pleased to be able to advise the house that this morning I went to Graylands Hospital and saw where work had commenced on a very important addition to the mental health facilities in this state. An amount of $5.5 million is being spent to provide an additional 16 beds. Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. Mr J.A. McGINTY : Sorry about that. Several members interjected. Mr J.A. McGINTY : Twelve of those 16 beds will be secure beds built adjacent to Fitzroy House on the Graylands Hospital campus. Those additional 12 secure beds plus the four holding beds will significantly increase the number of beds available and, therefore, reduce the pressure on our emergency departments, where mental health care patients who are acutely unwell are being kept for far too long at the moment. At the same time, the project to add a number of beds to the Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital is reaching completion. That was a $650 000 project, which will bring to 41 the number of mental health beds at the Armadale hospital. I was delighted when the Town of Vincent came to its senses last night and approved the conversion of the former Hawthorn Hospital to a mental health step-down facility. Once people have overcome the acute stage of their illness, they will be able to be accommodated in a home-like environment. The facility expressly excludes people who have a history of violence or criminal behaviour. It will accommodate people recovering from depression, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. I am delighted to be able to say that we will have an extra 16 beds where people can be taken out of acute hospital beds and accommodated in the first step-down facility of its type to be established in this state. It is a temporary facility pending the construction in Joondalup in three years of a permanent step-down facility, which will be matched by a comparable facility in Perth’s southern suburbs. Between Graylands and Armadale hospitals and the Hawthorn Hospital proposal, this year an additional 40 mental health beds will be available to enable two things to occur. First, it will take the pressure of the emergency departments. In discussions that I have had in recent days with emergency department clinicians, they have said that one of the great problems they have to deal with are highly disruptive, acutely unwell mental patients who are presenting in greater numbers in the state’s emergency departments. Their real wish is to be able to treat these people, stabilise them and then get them into secure mental health accommodation. We will see far better mental health care given to people who present in our hospitals with acute mental health conditions. These 40 extra beds will be a tremendous boost but there is more to come. All up, we have received funding through the budget for 108 extra inpatient beds and 420 community-based places in supported accommodation for the mentally ill. They will be rolled out over the next 18 months. We will then have the capacity to properly deliver a service to the mentally ill in this state.
Mr C.J. Barnett interjected. Mr J.A. McGINTY : Sorry about that. Several members interjected. Mr J.A. McGINTY : Twelve of those 16 beds will be secure beds built adjacent to Fitzroy House on the Graylands Hospital campus. Those additional 12 secure beds plus the four holding beds will significantly increase the number of beds available and, therefore, reduce the pressure on our emergency departments, where mental health care patients who are acutely unwell are being kept for far too long at the moment. At the same time, the project to add a number of beds to the Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital is reaching completion. That was a $650 000 project, which will bring to 41 the number of mental health beds at the Armadale hospital. I was delighted when the Town of Vincent came to its senses last night and approved the conversion of the former Hawthorn Hospital to a mental health step-down facility. Once people have overcome the acute stage of their illness, they will be able to be accommodated in a home-like environment. The facility expressly excludes people who have a history of violence or criminal behaviour. It will accommodate people recovering from depression, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. I am delighted to be able to say that we will have an extra 16 beds where people can be taken out of acute hospital beds and accommodated in the first step-down facility of its type to be established in this state. It is a temporary facility pending the construction in Joondalup in three years of a permanent step-down facility, which will be matched by a comparable facility in Perth’s southern suburbs. Between Graylands and Armadale hospitals and the Hawthorn Hospital proposal, this year an additional 40 mental health beds will be available to enable two things to occur. First, it will take the pressure of the emergency departments. In discussions that I have had in recent days with emergency department clinicians, they have said that one of the great problems they have to deal with are highly disruptive, acutely unwell mental patients who are presenting in greater numbers in the state’s emergency departments. Their real wish is to be able to treat these people, stabilise them and then get them into secure mental health accommodation. We will see far better mental health care given to people who present in our hospitals with acute mental health conditions. These 40 extra beds will be a tremendous boost but there is more to come. All up, we have received funding through the budget for 108 extra inpatient beds and 420 community-based places in supported accommodation for the mentally ill. They will be rolled out over the next 18 months. We will then have the capacity to properly deliver a service to the mentally ill in this state.
Mr J.A. McGINTY : Sorry about that. Several members interjected. Mr J.A. McGINTY : Twelve of those 16 beds will be secure beds built adjacent to Fitzroy House on the Graylands Hospital campus. Those additional 12 secure beds plus the four holding beds will significantly increase the number of beds available and, therefore, reduce the pressure on our emergency departments, where mental health care patients who are acutely unwell are being kept for far too long at the moment. At the same time, the project to add a number of beds to the Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital is reaching completion. That was a $650 000 project, which will bring to 41 the number of mental health beds at the Armadale hospital. I was delighted when the Town of Vincent came to its senses last night and approved the conversion of the former Hawthorn Hospital to a mental health step-down facility. Once people have overcome the acute stage of their illness, they will be able to be accommodated in a home-like environment. The facility expressly excludes people who have a history of violence or criminal behaviour. It will accommodate people recovering from depression, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. I am delighted to be able to say that we will have an extra 16 beds where people can be taken out of acute hospital beds and accommodated in the first step-down facility of its type to be established in this state. It is a temporary facility pending the construction in Joondalup in three years of a permanent step-down facility, which will be matched by a comparable facility in Perth’s southern suburbs. Between Graylands and Armadale hospitals and the Hawthorn Hospital proposal, this year an additional 40 mental health beds will be available to enable two things to occur. First, it will take the pressure of the emergency departments. In discussions that I have had in recent days with emergency department clinicians, they have said that one of the great problems they have to deal with are highly disruptive, acutely unwell mental patients who are presenting in greater numbers in the state’s emergency departments. Their real wish is to be able to treat these people, stabilise them and then get them into secure mental health accommodation. We will see far better mental health care given to people who present in our hospitals with acute mental health conditions. These 40 extra beds will be a tremendous boost but there is more to come. All up, we have received funding through the budget for 108 extra inpatient beds and 420 community-based places in supported accommodation for the mentally ill. They will be rolled out over the next 18 months. We will then have the capacity to properly deliver a service to the mentally ill in this state.
Several members interjected. Mr J.A. McGINTY : Twelve of those 16 beds will be secure beds built adjacent to Fitzroy House on the Graylands Hospital campus. Those additional 12 secure beds plus the four holding beds will significantly increase the number of beds available and, therefore, reduce the pressure on our emergency departments, where mental health care patients who are acutely unwell are being kept for far too long at the moment. At the same time, the project to add a number of beds to the Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital is reaching completion. That was a $650 000 project, which will bring to 41 the number of mental health beds at the Armadale hospital. I was delighted when the Town of Vincent came to its senses last night and approved the conversion of the former Hawthorn Hospital to a mental health step-down facility. Once people have overcome the acute stage of their illness, they will be able to be accommodated in a home-like environment. The facility expressly excludes people who have a history of violence or criminal behaviour. It will accommodate people recovering from depression, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. I am delighted to be able to say that we will have an extra 16 beds where people can be taken out of acute hospital beds and accommodated in the first step-down facility of its type to be established in this state. It is a temporary facility pending the construction in Joondalup in three years of a permanent step-down facility, which will be matched by a comparable facility in Perth’s southern suburbs. Between Graylands and Armadale hospitals and the Hawthorn Hospital proposal, this year an additional 40 mental health beds will be available to enable two things to occur. First, it will take the pressure of the emergency departments. In discussions that I have had in recent days with emergency department clinicians, they have said that one of the great problems they have to deal with are highly disruptive, acutely unwell mental patients who are presenting in greater numbers in the state’s emergency departments. Their real wish is to be able to treat these people, stabilise them and then get them into secure mental health accommodation. We will see far better mental health care given to people who present in our hospitals with acute mental health conditions. These 40 extra beds will be a tremendous boost but there is more to come. All up, we have received funding through the budget for 108 extra inpatient beds and 420 community-based places in supported accommodation for the mentally ill. They will be rolled out over the next 18 months. We will then have the capacity to properly deliver a service to the mentally ill in this state.
Mr J.A. McGINTY : Twelve of those 16 beds will be secure beds built adjacent to Fitzroy House on the Graylands Hospital campus. Those additional 12 secure beds plus the four holding beds will significantly increase the number of beds available and, therefore, reduce the pressure on our emergency departments, where mental health care patients who are acutely unwell are being kept for far too long at the moment. At the same time, the project to add a number of beds to the Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital is reaching completion. That was a $650 000 project, which will bring to 41 the number of mental health beds at the Armadale hospital. I was delighted when the Town of Vincent came to its senses last night and approved the conversion of the former Hawthorn Hospital to a mental health step-down facility. Once people have overcome the acute stage of their illness, they will be able to be accommodated in a home-like environment. The facility expressly excludes people who have a history of violence or criminal behaviour. It will accommodate people recovering from depression, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. I am delighted to be able to say that we will have an extra 16 beds where people can be taken out of acute hospital beds and accommodated in the first step-down facility of its type to be established in this state. It is a temporary facility pending the construction in Joondalup in three years of a permanent step-down facility, which will be matched by a comparable facility in Perth’s southern suburbs. Between Graylands and Armadale hospitals and the Hawthorn Hospital proposal, this year an additional 40 mental health beds will be available to enable two things to occur. First, it will take the pressure of the emergency departments. In discussions that I have had in recent days with emergency department clinicians, they have said that one of the great problems they have to deal with are highly disruptive, acutely unwell mental patients who are presenting in greater numbers in the state’s emergency departments. Their real wish is to be able to treat these people, stabilise them and then get them into secure mental health accommodation. We will see far better mental health care given to people who present in our hospitals with acute mental health conditions. These 40 extra beds will be a tremendous boost but there is more to come. All up, we have received funding through the budget for 108 extra inpatient beds and 420 community-based places in supported accommodation for the mentally ill. They will be rolled out over the next 18 months. We will then have the capacity to properly deliver a service to the mentally ill in this state.
At the same time, the project to add a number of beds to the Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital is reaching completion. That was a $650 000 project, which will bring to 41 the number of mental health beds at the Armadale hospital. I was delighted when the Town of Vincent came to its senses last night and approved the conversion of the former Hawthorn Hospital to a mental health step-down facility. Once people have overcome the acute stage of their illness, they will be able to be accommodated in a home-like environment. The facility expressly excludes people who have a history of violence or criminal behaviour. It will accommodate people recovering from depression, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. I am delighted to be able to say that we will have an extra 16 beds where people can be taken out of acute hospital beds and accommodated in the first step-down facility of its type to be established in this state. It is a temporary facility pending the construction in Joondalup in three years of a permanent step-down facility, which will be matched by a comparable facility in Perth’s southern suburbs. Between Graylands and Armadale hospitals and the Hawthorn Hospital proposal, this year an additional 40 mental health beds will be available to enable two things to occur. First, it will take the pressure of the emergency departments. In discussions that I have had in recent days with emergency department clinicians, they have said that one of the great problems they have to deal with are highly disruptive, acutely unwell mental patients who are presenting in greater numbers in the state’s emergency departments. Their real wish is to be able to treat these people, stabilise them and then get them into secure mental health accommodation. We will see far better mental health care given to people who present in our hospitals with acute mental health conditions. These 40 extra beds will be a tremendous boost but there is more to come. All up, we have received funding through the budget for 108 extra inpatient beds and 420 community-based places in supported accommodation for the mentally ill. They will be rolled out over the next 18 months. We will then have the capacity to properly deliver a service to the mentally ill in this state.
Between Graylands and Armadale hospitals and the Hawthorn Hospital proposal, this year an additional 40 mental health beds will be available to enable two things to occur. First, it will take the pressure of the emergency departments. In discussions that I have had in recent days with emergency department clinicians, they have said that one of the great problems they have to deal with are highly disruptive, acutely unwell mental patients who are presenting in greater numbers in the state’s emergency departments. Their real wish is to be able to treat these people, stabilise them and then get them into secure mental health accommodation. We will see far better mental health care given to people who present in our hospitals with acute mental health conditions. These 40 extra beds will be a tremendous boost but there is more to come. All up, we have received funding through the budget for 108 extra inpatient beds and 420 community-based places in supported accommodation for the mentally ill. They will be rolled out over the next 18 months. We will then have the capacity to properly deliver a service to the mentally ill in this state.
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