❓ Ms MacTiernan questions the Minister for Mental Health about potential service cuts at Armadale Health Service and the Mead Centre during the Christmas period. The Minister denies any planned cutbacks to frontline services, attributing any reduced staffing to standard holiday arrangements.
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MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES — CHRISTMAS PERIOD
(1) Can the minister confirm that various mental health services at the Armadale Health Service will be closed for one month over the Christmas period, including the outpatient rehabilitation service, which provides suicide intervention services? (2) Can the minister confirm that the Mead Centre, which provides services for adult mental health outpatients, will be operating on a skeleton staff for the same period? (3) Can the minister provide details of other mental health services that will be forced to make cuts over the Christmas period to meet budget cuts? Dr G.G. JACOBS
(1) Can the minister confirm that various mental health services at the Armadale Health Service will be closed for one month over the Christmas period, including the outpatient rehabilitation service, which provides suicide intervention services? (2) Can the minister confirm that the Mead Centre, which provides services for adult mental health outpatients, will be operating on a skeleton staff for the same period? (3) Can the minister provide details of other mental health services that will be forced to make cuts over the Christmas period to meet budget cuts? Dr G.G. JACOBS
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I thank the member for Armadale for her question. (1)-(3) I am not aware of the cutbacks that the member is suggesting over the Christmas period. It is very important to understand a matter that the opposition keeps carping about, and that is cutbacks in mental health. The opposition also carps about cutbacks in health. The spend in health, including mental health, this year has increased. We will come in on budget. I have answered questions from the opposition before about cutbacks in front-line clinical mental health services. There will not be any cutbacks in front-line services in mental health. As happens in many agencies and in many businesses in Western Australia, obviously arrangements are made over Christmas so that people can have time off. This is not about cutting back mental health services. When the opposition was in government we saw what it did for the unfortunate people with mental illness in this community. It can be summed up in one word—nothing. We have created a ministerial portfolio of mental health to do better in mental health. We will provide improved services for people in mental health whether it is at Christmas or not.
(2) Can the minister confirm that the Mead Centre, which provides services for adult mental health outpatients, will be operating on a skeleton staff for the same period? (3) Can the minister provide details of other mental health services that will be forced to make cuts over the Christmas period to meet budget cuts? Dr G.G. JACOBS replied: I thank the member for Armadale for her question. (1)-(3) I am not aware of the cutbacks that the member is suggesting over the Christmas period. It is very important to understand a matter that the opposition keeps carping about, and that is cutbacks in mental health. The opposition also carps about cutbacks in health. The spend in health, including mental health, this year has increased. We will come in on budget. I have answered questions from the opposition before about cutbacks in front-line clinical mental health services. There will not be any cutbacks in front-line services in mental health. As happens in many agencies and in many businesses in Western Australia, obviously arrangements are made over Christmas so that people can have time off. This is not about cutting back mental health services. When the opposition was in government we saw what it did for the unfortunate people with mental illness in this community. It can be summed up in one word—nothing. We have created a ministerial portfolio of mental health to do better in mental health. We will provide improved services for people in mental health whether it is at Christmas or not.
(3) Can the minister provide details of other mental health services that will be forced to make cuts over the Christmas period to meet budget cuts? Dr G.G. JACOBS replied: I thank the member for Armadale for her question. (1)-(3) I am not aware of the cutbacks that the member is suggesting over the Christmas period. It is very important to understand a matter that the opposition keeps carping about, and that is cutbacks in mental health. The opposition also carps about cutbacks in health. The spend in health, including mental health, this year has increased. We will come in on budget. I have answered questions from the opposition before about cutbacks in front-line clinical mental health services. There will not be any cutbacks in front-line services in mental health. As happens in many agencies and in many businesses in Western Australia, obviously arrangements are made over Christmas so that people can have time off. This is not about cutting back mental health services. When the opposition was in government we saw what it did for the unfortunate people with mental illness in this community. It can be summed up in one word—nothing. We have created a ministerial portfolio of mental health to do better in mental health. We will provide improved services for people in mental health whether it is at Christmas or not.
Dr G.G. JACOBS replied: I thank the member for Armadale for her question. (1)-(3) I am not aware of the cutbacks that the member is suggesting over the Christmas period. It is very important to understand a matter that the opposition keeps carping about, and that is cutbacks in mental health. The opposition also carps about cutbacks in health. The spend in health, including mental health, this year has increased. We will come in on budget. I have answered questions from the opposition before about cutbacks in front-line clinical mental health services. There will not be any cutbacks in front-line services in mental health. As happens in many agencies and in many businesses in Western Australia, obviously arrangements are made over Christmas so that people can have time off. This is not about cutting back mental health services. When the opposition was in government we saw what it did for the unfortunate people with mental illness in this community. It can be summed up in one word—nothing. We have created a ministerial portfolio of mental health to do better in mental health. We will provide improved services for people in mental health whether it is at Christmas or not.
I thank the member for Armadale for her question. (1)-(3) I am not aware of the cutbacks that the member is suggesting over the Christmas period. It is very important to understand a matter that the opposition keeps carping about, and that is cutbacks in mental health. The opposition also carps about cutbacks in health. The spend in health, including mental health, this year has increased. We will come in on budget. I have answered questions from the opposition before about cutbacks in front-line clinical mental health services. There will not be any cutbacks in front-line services in mental health. As happens in many agencies and in many businesses in Western Australia, obviously arrangements are made over Christmas so that people can have time off. This is not about cutting back mental health services. When the opposition was in government we saw what it did for the unfortunate people with mental illness in this community. It can be summed up in one word—nothing. We have created a ministerial portfolio of mental health to do better in mental health. We will provide improved services for people in mental health whether it is at Christmas or not.
(1)-(3) I am not aware of the cutbacks that the member is suggesting over the Christmas period. It is very important to understand a matter that the opposition keeps carping about, and that is cutbacks in mental health. The opposition also carps about cutbacks in health. The spend in health, including mental health, this year has increased. We will come in on budget. I have answered questions from the opposition before about cutbacks in front-line clinical mental health services. There will not be any cutbacks in front-line services in mental health. As happens in many agencies and in many businesses in Western Australia, obviously arrangements are made over Christmas so that people can have time off. This is not about cutting back mental health services. When the opposition was in government we saw what it did for the unfortunate people with mental illness in this community. It can be summed up in one word—nothing. We have created a ministerial portfolio of mental health to do better in mental health. We will provide improved services for people in mental health whether it is at Christmas or not.
(2) Can the minister confirm that the Mead Centre, which provides services for adult mental health outpatients, will be operating on a skeleton staff for the same period? (3) Can the minister provide details of other mental health services that will be forced to make cuts over the Christmas period to meet budget cuts? Dr G.G. JACOBS replied: I thank the member for Armadale for her question. (1)-(3) I am not aware of the cutbacks that the member is suggesting over the Christmas period. It is very important to understand a matter that the opposition keeps carping about, and that is cutbacks in mental health. The opposition also carps about cutbacks in health. The spend in health, including mental health, this year has increased. We will come in on budget. I have answered questions from the opposition before about cutbacks in front-line clinical mental health services. There will not be any cutbacks in front-line services in mental health. As happens in many agencies and in many businesses in Western Australia, obviously arrangements are made over Christmas so that people can have time off. This is not about cutting back mental health services. When the opposition was in government we saw what it did for the unfortunate people with mental illness in this community. It can be summed up in one word—nothing. We have created a ministerial portfolio of mental health to do better in mental health. We will provide improved services for people in mental health whether it is at Christmas or not.
(3) Can the minister provide details of other mental health services that will be forced to make cuts over the Christmas period to meet budget cuts? Dr G.G. JACOBS replied: I thank the member for Armadale for her question. (1)-(3) I am not aware of the cutbacks that the member is suggesting over the Christmas period. It is very important to understand a matter that the opposition keeps carping about, and that is cutbacks in mental health. The opposition also carps about cutbacks in health. The spend in health, including mental health, this year has increased. We will come in on budget. I have answered questions from the opposition before about cutbacks in front-line clinical mental health services. There will not be any cutbacks in front-line services in mental health. As happens in many agencies and in many businesses in Western Australia, obviously arrangements are made over Christmas so that people can have time off. This is not about cutting back mental health services. When the opposition was in government we saw what it did for the unfortunate people with mental illness in this community. It can be summed up in one word—nothing. We have created a ministerial portfolio of mental health to do better in mental health. We will provide improved services for people in mental health whether it is at Christmas or not.
Dr G.G. JACOBS replied: I thank the member for Armadale for her question. (1)-(3) I am not aware of the cutbacks that the member is suggesting over the Christmas period. It is very important to understand a matter that the opposition keeps carping about, and that is cutbacks in mental health. The opposition also carps about cutbacks in health. The spend in health, including mental health, this year has increased. We will come in on budget. I have answered questions from the opposition before about cutbacks in front-line clinical mental health services. There will not be any cutbacks in front-line services in mental health. As happens in many agencies and in many businesses in Western Australia, obviously arrangements are made over Christmas so that people can have time off. This is not about cutting back mental health services. When the opposition was in government we saw what it did for the unfortunate people with mental illness in this community. It can be summed up in one word—nothing. We have created a ministerial portfolio of mental health to do better in mental health. We will provide improved services for people in mental health whether it is at Christmas or not.
I thank the member for Armadale for her question. (1)-(3) I am not aware of the cutbacks that the member is suggesting over the Christmas period. It is very important to understand a matter that the opposition keeps carping about, and that is cutbacks in mental health. The opposition also carps about cutbacks in health. The spend in health, including mental health, this year has increased. We will come in on budget. I have answered questions from the opposition before about cutbacks in front-line clinical mental health services. There will not be any cutbacks in front-line services in mental health. As happens in many agencies and in many businesses in Western Australia, obviously arrangements are made over Christmas so that people can have time off. This is not about cutting back mental health services. When the opposition was in government we saw what it did for the unfortunate people with mental illness in this community. It can be summed up in one word—nothing. We have created a ministerial portfolio of mental health to do better in mental health. We will provide improved services for people in mental health whether it is at Christmas or not.
(1)-(3) I am not aware of the cutbacks that the member is suggesting over the Christmas period. It is very important to understand a matter that the opposition keeps carping about, and that is cutbacks in mental health. The opposition also carps about cutbacks in health. The spend in health, including mental health, this year has increased. We will come in on budget. I have answered questions from the opposition before about cutbacks in front-line clinical mental health services. There will not be any cutbacks in front-line services in mental health. As happens in many agencies and in many businesses in Western Australia, obviously arrangements are made over Christmas so that people can have time off. This is not about cutting back mental health services. When the opposition was in government we saw what it did for the unfortunate people with mental illness in this community. It can be summed up in one word—nothing. We have created a ministerial portfolio of mental health to do better in mental health. We will provide improved services for people in mental health whether it is at Christmas or not.
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