More than half of Sydney health district’s staff psychiatrists have resigned, leaked documents show

Documents also show plans to maintain services without bed closures and rely on ‘bolstered’ allied healthcare staff and nurses

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More than half of the staff psychiatrists in the Sydney Local Health District – which includes two major psychiatry centres at Royal Prince Alfred and Concord hospitals – have resigned, leaked documents show.

Guardian Australia has seen the district’s work health safety “risk assessment tool” dated 17 January, which states in a “background/context” section that the “resignation of more than 50% of psychiatry staff specialists employed in SLHD may impact the district’s ability to provide safe, high quality, timely, appropriate, consistent and comprehensive health services for mental health consumers”.

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