eMJA: Why are community psychiatric services in Australia doing it so hard?

To the Editor: Singh and Castle recently commented on the assumptions made in relation to the National Mental Health Policy.1 One such assumption was that the cost of the community care service model could be constrained by limiting services to the “severely” mentally ill. The authors went on to describe the realities associated with making this and other assumptions on current mental health care delivery.

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